Bekir Ercan Van

"At around 8:00 a.m., we got on a vehicle with the commander and arrived in front of a building belonging to the Americans. The commander went inside and I stayed in the vehicle," an eyewitness said. 

They are all actually well aware that they are in an abnormal situation. For example, the co-pilot of the tanker aircraft "ASENA 3," Lieutenant Fatih Akbulut, said in his testimony, "The base commander said, 'You will go north in the direction of Ankara, you will supply fuel to the aircraft that asks for fuel from you.