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Kılıçdaroğlu's Yenikapı speech
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the Republican People's Party, spoke at the "Democracy and Martyrs' Rally". Kılıçdaroğlu said, "All politicians, myself included, should learn a lesson from this calamit," and listed a 12-item suggestion list.
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Abdullah Gül gave a speech in Kısıklı
Former President Abdullah Gül addressed the people who stood guard on democracy watches in front of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s residence. He gave the speech in front of the residence and said: “If much darker days and the bitter sufferings have been hindered, it is only because our valiant citizens put everything aside and went out to the streets to stand in front of tanks for the homeland, nation and Turkey.”
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Strong reaction from Abdullah Gül to the coup
Former President Abdullah Gül connected live with NTV on the night of the coup attempt. Emphasizing that Turkey is not an African or South American Country, Gül addressed the putschist soldiers: “This is an operation under the chain of command. Whoever you get the commands from, don’t listen.” After addressing the putschist soldiers, he called the public out to the squares.
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President Erdoğan could not hold back his tears at the funeral of martyrs Erol Olçak and Mustafa Cambaz
President Erdoğan attended the funerals of Erol Olçak, his son Abdullah Olçak and Yeni Şafak photojournalist Mustafa Cambaz, who all died while resisting the coup attempt. Erdoğan could not hold back his tears during his speech at the funeral and had to cut his speech short.
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Putschists at Akıncı Air Base captured
One of the most critical points of the coup attempt was Akıncı Air Base located in Kazan. Both the chief of General Staff and some of the commanders of the armed forces were held hostage there. After the coup attempt was repelled, an operation was carried out at Akıncı Air Base and the putschists who tried to escape were captured.
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The raid on the command element during a wedding
On the night of the coup attempt, General Mehmet Şanver’s daughter had her wedding at the Moda Maritime Club, and high-ranked generals were in attendance as well. Knowing that, the putschists assaulted the garden of the club with the support of helicopters and took 17 generals hostage, after a quick assault. The incident was thoroughly recorded by the club’s CCTVs.
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Clashes in Malatya 2nd Army Command
The putschists who seized the Malatya 2nd Army Command on the night of July 15 continued their invasion until the morning. When the coup had been 90 percent repelled, Malatya was one of the places that experienced clashes. Eight putschists were killed in clashes at the Malatya 2nd Army Command.
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The order to bomb Parliament came from Malatya 2nd Army Command
Adem Huduti arrived at the Malatya 2nd Army Command with his personal bodyguards and seven vehicles. His bodyguards blocked the office and took security measures with rifles. Security cameras recorded the events at the Malatya 2nd Army Command.
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Radar tracks of July 15
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has determined one by one the flight records and ammunition loads of aircraft whose records were deleted after the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) failed July 15 coup attempt.
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The bombing of Gölbaşı Special Forces
The Police Special Forces Education Center in Gölbaşı, Ankara was bombed by aircraft on orders from Col. Ahmet Tosun. Seventeen police officers were martyred in the airstrikes. The pilots who conducted the airstrikes were Mehmet Çetin Kaplan and Ertan Koral.
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In front of Vatan Avenue Police Headquarters
Coup soldiers with two tanks and five armored personnel carriers from the 66th Armored Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command fired at the public. Coup soldiers who realized that the resistance was intensifying decided to return to their bases. One tank did not return and was seized by the public. The soldier in the tank was former Istanbul Security Branch Assistant Chief Mithat Aynacı. Aynacı was taken into custody and arrested.
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The bombing of Ankara Police Headquarters
FETÖ pilots in F-16s bombed Ankara Police Headquarters three times on July 15. Coup soldiers tried to seize Ankara Police Headquarters, which was the center of operations against FETÖ putschists.
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The Moda Sea Club on the night of July 15
Coup soldiers raided the wedding of the daughter of the Combat Air Unit Commander, Chief Air Marshal Mehmet Şanver, to catch the Chief of Air Staff and 17 top-ranking generals.
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The İBB building on July 15
Seventeen municipality members died as martyrs in the clashes in front of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) building during the July 15 FETÖ coup attempt. Security camera footage shows İBB Civil Defense Secretary Mehmet Tunç welcoming coup soldiers at the door and preparing food for them.
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Atatürk Airport on the night of July 15
Atatürk Airport was one of the key points of the July 15 coup attempt. Thousands rushed to the streets and squares with Turkish flags in their hands on the call from President Erdoğan to the public to claim the streets. Here is what happened at Atatürk Airport on July 15:
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Akıncı Base
The name of the Turkish people is strength and faith
R.Y.K. : Derya Ovacıklı
Interviewee
Derya Ovacikli, who was injured by FETÖ gunfire at the Akıncı 4th Main Jet Base Command during the July 15 coup attempt, said: “It is an honor for me to have shed a drop of blood for my country. The name of the Turkish people is strenght and faith.”
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General Staff Headquarters
My son will never allow the infidel to touch my blood
R.Y.K. : Erkan Ölçücüoğlu
Interviewee
Erkan Ölçücüoğlu, a doctor who was injured upon being shot in front of the Turkish General Staff by FETÖ on the night of the July 15 coup attempt said, “ Fortunately, my blood is on this soil. I hope my son too won’t allow the infidel, the vile, to touch this blood.”
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Police Headquarters
He lost his leg for his country
R.Y.K. : Ersin Karabucak
Interviewee
Ersin Karabucak, who lost his leg after being shot in front of the Ankara Police Headquarters in Ankara on the night of the July 15 coup attempt carried out by FETÖ said, “ We did everything possible for our country. May our country stand forever.”
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Çengelköy
Bullets rained on a cab carrying wounded
R.Y.K. : Fatih Saatçi
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Fatih Saatçi, who opposed the traitors in Çengelköy and carried the wounded in his taxi despite it being hit by 14 bullets during 15 July FETÖ coup attempt, said: “I heard a ranked officer ordering to shoot the taxi. Exactly 14 bullets hit my cab while I was carrying the wounded.”
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Atatürk Airport
It was as if I flew that night
R.Y.K. : Hacı Akkaya
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Hacı Akkaya, who walked 8 kilometers with a crippled leg to stop the traitors at Atatürk Airport during the July 15 FETÖ coup attempt, said in reference to that night: “I was resurrected. Sometimes I can’t go to the mosque from home. That night it was as if I was flying.”
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Special Forces Command
Halisdemir’s father: I raised him for the country, gave him to the country
R.Y.K. : Hasan Hüseyin Halisdemir
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Hasan Hüseyin Halisdemir, the father of Ömer Halisdemir, the man who changed the course of the July 15 FETÖ coup attempt perpetrated, in reference to his heroic son said: “I raised him for the country, gave him to the country.”
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Hakkari Mountain and Commando Brigade Command
‘I came here for the survival of the state, I will not point a weapon at the people’
R.Y.K. : Mehmet Abacı
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On the night of the failed July 15 FETÖ coup attempt, Command Sergeant Major Mehmet Abacı with the Hakkari Mountain and Commando Brigade Command, in response to the coup commanders’ order for martial law, said: “I am not a part of this, I will not fire on my people. I am here for the survival of the state. Arrest me if necessary.”
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Borsa İstanbul
He is my child but Turkey’s martyr
R.Y.K. : Mehmet Şevket Uzun
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Nuriye Uzun, the wife of Mehmet Şevket Uzun, a police officer who was martyred in front of the Istanbul Stock Exchange building during the July 15 coup attempt carried out by FETÖ, said , “Şevket never feared death. He always longed to be honored with martyrdom.”
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Atatürk Airport
Was it a godsend? I dont know
R.Y.K. : Mehmet Şükrü Kıntaş
Interviewee
Mehmet Şükrü Kıntaş, who went to the Ataturk Airport on the night of July 15 FETÖ during the coup attempt, took his clothes off and choked the tanks’ exhaust pipes of the tanks, said “ The people wanted to kill the soldiers we took out of the tanks, but we didn’t allow them, we handed them over to the police.”
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Göztepe
He learned to drive a tank in 5 minutes
R.Y.K. : Mehmet Köse
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Mehmet Köse, a driver for the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, said it took him five minutes to learn how to drive the tank that the people had taken over from the treacherous soldiers during the July 15 FETÖ coup attempt = and was left on the E-5 highway. He said: “Before [that night], I saw tanks from the outside only. But I didn’t hesitate one bit. I tried to drive it like a normal vehicle and, by the grace of God, I did it.”
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July 15 Martyrs Bridge
We were on the streets that night with our Muslim identity
R.Y.K. : Mustafa Çolak
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Mechanical engineer Mustafa Çolak, who was wounded on the Martyrs’ Bridge when the traitorous coup soldiers opened fire on the night of the failed July 15 FETÖ coup attempt, said: “Our Muslim identity was the motivation for us to go out to the streets.”
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Akıncı Base
We have faith, nobody can defeat Turks
R.Y.K. : Mustafa Zorova
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Mustafa Zorova, 70, who was wounded by gunfire at the 4th Main Jet Base Command at Akıncı Air Base by FETÖ traitors during the July 15 coup attempt, said: “Nobody can defeat us, the Turks. Bullets have no effect on us. As long as we have this faith, nobody can defeat us.”
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The majority of those martyred on the night of July 15 while resisting the coup bid were married with children. As many as 355 people were left without a parent, including 264 children.
Democracy watch rallies held for 28 days after coup attempt
Democracy watches were launched across Turkey's 81 provinces after the coup attempt and lasted for days. Millions of civilians from ages 7 to 70 participated in the democracy watches, which were most crowded after work hours, but in the first light of the morning, the squares were not empty.
Symbols of the Turkish people’s resistance to the coup attempt
Symbols of resistance that were used in democracy watches held across Turkey were always the same. The flags, anthems, slogans and food at the democracy watches became symbols of Turkey's resistance against the coup.
What motivated the people to take to the streets?
During the July 15 coup attempt, 92 of the 248 martyrs went out to the streets after the call of President Erdoğan. After the critical call of the president, the streets were filled.
FETÖ’s international organizational structure
The data, including the structuring of FETÖ in 100 countries, active in 170 countries in the world, gives the number of establishments such as schools, associations, foundations, financial resources and media that can be determined. The total number of detectable FETÖ establishments is 1470.
The mosques where Fetullah Gülen delivered sermons
Fetullah Gülen, the leader of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), delivered sermons between 1953 and 1991. In 38 years Gülen, who is responsible for the July 15 coup bid, delivered speeches in numerous mosques.
FETÖ’s organizational chart
The total number of the institutions of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) is 1470. FETÖ is operating in 170 countries via its institutions.
FETÖ's judicial structure
Since the 1980’s, judicial institutions have become FETÖ’s most strategic targets of infiltration activities as it attempted to seize control over the government. Once within the judiciary, a member of FETÖ would mentor and assign judges and prosecutors, and during the 2000s, they would sign on a large number of operations.
Turkey on the night of July 15
On July 15, FETÖ members sent the so-called new 'appointments' they had prepared earlier to the coup leaders across Turkey's 81 provinces. While there were military movements on the ground in more than 25 provinces following the instruction of the Peace At Home Council, many warplanes, helicopters, and tanks were used during the coup attempt. Many civilians, police officers, and soldiers were killed or wounded in the attack of the coup. The public repelled the treacherous coup attempt.
July 15 martyrs across Turkey
On July 15, with the call of President Erdoğan, millions of people who came to the squares across Turkey's 81 provinces and fought against the coup attempt. As a result of the direct attacks of putschists on civilians, 241 heroes were martyred and 2,194 people were wounded.
Balıkesir 9th Main Jet Base
Putschist pilots who took off from Balikesir 9th Main Jet Base, conducted low altitude flights over the Marmara Region and Istanbul. The base was cleared from the coup with the operation on the morning of July 16. After ensuring control of the base, TAF aircrafts departing from the Balıkesir base struck the Akıncı 4th Main Jet Base captured by the putschists.
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FETÖ's Structure - Global
Beginning to operate abroad in 1989, FETÖ has many schools, colleges, associations, foundations, media centers and universities in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and America. It is estimated that FETÖ, which is active in 170 countries across the world, has nearly 3,000 institutions and organizations in total.
President Erdoğan's Route
President Erdoğan learned of the coup attempt in the hotel he was staying in Marmaris. Later, the president, who participated in a TV broadcast, invited the public to the squares to stand against the coup attempt. Erdoğan, who showed great leadership in the face of the coup attempt, first came to Dalaman and then to Istanbul Atatürk Airport.
Prime Minister Yıldırım's Route
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, who was in the prime ministerial office in Dolmabahçe Palace on July 15, went out to go to Ankara. Knowing the extraordinary situation in Tuzla, Yıldırım went to Ankara. Yıldırım's convoy, who learned that the conflicts in Ankara and Bolu had increased, even more, changed his route and headed toward Ilgaz to pass through Kastamonu.
CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu's Route
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who arrived in Istanbul from Ankara on July 15, was informed of the coup attempt after he landed at Atatürk Airport. Kilicdaroglu, who spent the night in Bakırköy, passed by boat to Pendik on the morning of July 16. Kılıçdaroğlu, who came to Ankara from Pendik by road, made a speech against the coup by participating in the extraordinary parliamentary session organized by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Chief of General Staff Akar's Route
On July 15, coup troops took the Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar in the Headquarters of the General Staff hostage and seized the headquarters. Akar was taken to the Akıncı 4th Main Jet Base by helicopter. Akar, who was kept there for the night, was rescued by the operation on the morning of July 16 and brought to Çankaya Palace Complex.
