A social activity with F-16s on the night of the coup attempt

Businessman Hakan Çiçek who was caught in the morning of July 16 near Akıncı base while trying to escape in the open field confessed in his testimony to the prosecutor's office to have spent the night at the base.

"I deal with trade. I have three companies. I am the owner of Anafartalar College in Ankara. Colonel Ahmet Özçetin, a parent of one of our students invited me to the Akıncı base for a social activity around 20:30 Friday night and I went. Ahmet Çetin was there as well as one or two people I did not know. The military activities started after I left. They had told me there would be social activity," he stated in his defense.

Ahmet Çetin, the commander of the Akıncı base said that all three of his children study at Anafartalar College in his testimony to the prosecutor.

What kind of a social activity could there have been at the base on the night of July 15?

It is interesting that Özçetin talks about a "social activity," like Çiçek. According to his testimony, a soldier whose name he could not remember called from the special forces and informed the need to make planning for a joint mission between the special forces and the air forces. He asked to organize an activity in order to develop a common language between the two. The date is set as July 15.

"We decided to organize a social activity and we were going to do it at the 143rd fleet. At around 16:00, I saw them in civilian clothing at the 143rd fleet," said Özçetin.

The issue is the fact that these soldiers came for the social activity in civilian clothing, changed to their military clothes after nightfall, took up the arms they brought with them and started acting beyond the bounds of a social activity. It is highly probable these soldiers are the 33...