Adil Öksüz

One of the key court cases regarding the July 15, 2016 military coup attempt kicked off in Ankara on Aug. 1. 

A total of 486 suspects - including the former Air Forces Commander Akın Öztürk, who is accused of running the coup headquarters at the Akıncı Air Base near Ankara - were brought to court for the start of the case. 

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. 

Turkey has begun the critical trial on the July 2016 coup attempt, in which 486 suspects stand accused of attempting a putsch to overthrow the elected government from the Akıncı Air Base, considered the central nerve center of the coup.

A critical trial on events at the Akıncı Airbase, which was used as the center of the coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016, began on Aug. 1 in the capital Ankara, with a total of 486 suspects being tried. 

A critical trial on events at the Akıncı Airbase, which was used as the center of the coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016, will start on Aug. 1. The trial will take place in the capital Ankara at a courtroom exclusively built for the coup trials. 

The most important aspect of Fethullah Gülen's interview broadcasted on July 18 on France 24 was admitting for the first time that Adil Öksüz had visited him in Pennsylvania and therefore he knew him.

One of the most interesting pages of the July 15 coup attempt is the long night lived at the Akıncı Air Base, where Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar was held hostage by the coup soldiers until morning.

When an assistant professor (Dr. Adil Öksüz) at the Sakarya University Faculty of Theology gets caught by gendarmerie around Akıncı Base in an open field on July 15, 2016, the night of the coup attempt, and says he was looking for an estate ground, how convincing would that sound?

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said he does not approve of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar's name being involved in debates regarding failure of the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) ahead of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt. 

There are "elements" other than members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) in the Turkish military that also supported the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said in a televised interview on July 5.