National Intelligence Organization

The main issues leading to the July 15, 2016 coup attempt can be analyzed through the minutes of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission, which I have been examining for the past two weeks.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said he will walk alone to the "Justice Rally" in Istanbul's Maltepe district on July 9, the 25th and last day of the "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on July 8 on the sidelines of the G-20 Hamburg Summit in Germany.  

The two leaders discussed bilateral cooperation, the Syrian crisis, the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project and Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the Kremlin said in a statement.  

A significant benefit of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on the July 15, 2016, coup attempt is that it has registered all accessible information and documents about the Gülen movement, thus providing public access to them. 

Injustice in Turkey will "certainly be removed one day," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who is currently in jail on espionage charges, has said in a message conveyed by a party MP on July 4.

One of the generals interned at the General Staff Headquarters during the coup attempt on July 15 is a well-known name to the public: Brig. Gen. Ertuğrulgazi Özkürkçü, the head of the Press and Public Relations Department.

The July 2016 coup attempt of Fethullah Gülen's followers took decades of systematic planning, which involved the infiltration of the Turkish Armed Forces from bottom to top. By the time of the coup attempt, Gülen's followers occupied almost half of the general and admiral positions. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Istanbul on July 2, as tension soared on the Syrian border between Turkish troops and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara views as a terrorist group linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Turkish police and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) caught eight militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who were preparing for a "sensational action" in the country, in the southeastern province of Gaziantep in a joint operation on June 30, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

Turkey will retaliate against any cross-border gunfire from the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria and will not remain silent in the face of anti-Turkey activities by terrorist groups abroad, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on June 29.