National Intelligence Organization

The stances of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan on the night of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 were the hottest debate last week. Several assumptions and theories in these debates focused on the attitudes of these two.

The army received two key pieces of intelligence on November 2015 and February 2016 about a possible upcoming coup attempt, Orhan Yıkılgan, the former top aide to Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, has testified in his defense, claiming that it was a "strategic mistake to not take necessary measures"

According to the Army Aviation Command prosecutor's indictment, the structuring of the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen within the Turkish military was done through "cells, each led by an 'abi' [older brother]." Target students were selected while they were in junior high.

The Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) was regarded as a grave threat to Turkey, but no state institution could foresee that it would dare stage a coup and topple the Republic of Turkey, the country's top soldier has said, contending that the army took all necessary measures to foil the attempt immediately after it learned of a plot.

A report penned by a parliamentary panel tasked with probing the July 2016 coup attempt has determined that the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) was absolutely behind the putsch while also noting that there was a general intelligence failure in preventing the deadly attempt.

During an unscheduled inspection on July 15, 2016 at the Army Aviation School Command, conducted after a tip-off from a "Major O.K." to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Army Chief Gen. Salih Zeki Çolak asked School Commander Gen. Hakan Atınç whether an individual named Deniz Aldemir was in his contingent. 

During an unscheduled inspection on July 15, 2016 at the Army Aviation School Command, conducted after a tip-off from a "Major O.K." to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Army Chief Gen. Salih Zeki Çolak asked School Commander Gen. Hakan Atınç whether an individual named Deniz Aldemir was in his contingent. 

Daily Yeni Şafak had a headline story on May 20 by Osman Ozgan with the title: "Here is that major's statement," triggering new debates. We knew that a major, identified only as O.K., personally went to the headquarters of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in Ankara's Yenimahalle district on the afternoon of July 15, 2016 to warn them about the preparations of the coup.

Twenty people were detained on May 23 in simultaneous operations carried out against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party/ Kurdistan Communities' Union (PKK/KCK) in the western coastal province of İzmir, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The person who played one of the most important roles in the defeat of the July 15 coup attempt was a Turkish Air Forces major, who went to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) headquarters to warn that MİT undersecretary Hakan Fidan was to be kidnapped by a group of soldiers at midnight.