Why can an F-16 pilot not look his children in the face?

Hasan Hüsnü Balıkçı who flies with the call sign "ASLAN 5" says, "We are going towards the target and dropping [the bomb]."

Mustafa Azimetli who flies with the call sign "ASLAN 1" says, "Okay," and adds, "May God help you…"

The wish "May God help you" is not communicated in the skies of Northern Iraq in Kandil, but the airspace above the capital Ankara's city center. 

If you look at the coordinates of the target that have been "OK'ed" in the recorded talks, you come across a green area facing Dikmen Avenue on the Turkish Grand National Assembly's garden premises.  

Before going on to the phase of dropping the bomb, let's meet the actors in these dialogues. 

The first actor is Staff Lieutenant Colonel Hüsnü Balıkçı, who has taken off in an F-16 and who is about to ignite the bomb. The second pilot in this plane is the Staff Captain Uğur Uzunoğlu from the 143rd Squadron.

In the F-16 that has taken off with the call sign "ASLAN 1," flies the 143rd Squadron Commander Staff Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Azimetli and Staff Captain Ekrem Aydoğdu from the 141st Squadron.

In the dialogues, the person we come across with the name of "FİLO" is the Staff Captain Ahmet Tosun, serving on the 141st Squadron, which was the operation center of the flights assigned to the coup. The task assigned to him in the coup attempt was to transmit the flight tracks and coordinates of the targets that they would be bombing to the pilots taking off from the base. Tosun received these orders from the Staff Colonel Ahmet Özçetin, the operations commander of the Akıncı Airbase in the 143rd Squadron that was the operations center of the coup. At that point, the coup's civilian executive staffs, including Adil Öksüz, were also at the 143rd...

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