Akin Ozturk

The conversations between the 93-0671 tail-numbered F-16 jet's pilot who took off with the code name "Lion 6" and the tower at the Akıncı Air Base were fully recorded. The dialogues happened in the morning of July 16, 2016. It was the last F-16 flight to take off from the base used by the coup plotters. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Tuncay Özkan handed a copy of a flash drive containing a list of military personnel in the army with links to the Gülen network in 2007, including former air force commander and key coup general Akın Öztürk, to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office on July 25, according to the party's leader. 

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.

Gendarmerie General Commander Gen. Yaşar Güler has said the plotters of the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt "turned into robots" after receiving the order to stage a coup by the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

A former four-star general arrested over the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt has cited Turkey's chief of general staff as a witness to prove his innocence. 

Ten months have passed since the bloody coup attempt of July 15, 2016 and we are finally talking about a judicial process. The trial that has been taking place in Ankara for a week is limited to the military officers who allegedly took part in the coup activities on that night. There are also several other small trials in provinces like Malatya, Adıyaman and Muğla.

More than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former generals, went on trial Monday accused of being among the ringleaders of last year’s attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Former four-star general Akın Öztürk denied any involvement in a failed July 15, 2016, coup when he appeared before a court on May 22 in a trial against more than 200 soldiers regarding events at the Turkey's General Staff Headquarters on the night of the putsch.

The Ankara 17th High Criminal Court has begun a high-profile case against a total of 221 suspects, including former high-ranking generals who have been accused of perpetrating a bloody July 2016 coup attempt against a backdrop of pro-government protests.

The top three suspects in the case into coup actions in Ankara's Akıncı Air Base during the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt were revealed in an indictment prepared by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman on March 31.