Pro-FETÖ generals gained control of the Turkish border security with war-torn Syria during the July 15 coup attempt
The Fetullah Terrorists Organization (FETÖ) had launched the attempt for the Turkey invasion years ago, as almost all generals commissioned for the borders security in the eastern and southeastern region were loyal to Fetullah Gülen, the U.S.-based mastermind of the failed coup, news reports said.
It accused that all brigades stationed to protect the 911-kilometer-long border with Syria went under the control of FETÖ-linked commanders in August 2015.
The initiative attempted to leave Turkey unguarded against the world's most dangerous terrorist organization Daesh and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terror group.
The second brigade stationed in the border cities of Gaziantep and Hatay went under FETÖ control two years ago, while the military imams of the terror group seized other brigades in Şanlıurfa and Mardin provinces one years ago.
Murat Soysal, who had been promoted to brigadier-general in 2015, was appointed to command the 5th Armored Brigade in Gaziantep, as former commander Cemalettin Doğan was expelled from the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) over links with FETÖ.
Brigadier General Salih Kırhan, who had been promoted to the position in 2015, was appointed as the 70th Mechanized Infantry Brigade Commander in Mardin last year.
In Şanlıurfa, another border province that has been targeted by Daesh's rocket attacks several times, Metin Alpcan had been brought to the head of the mission of the 20th Armored Brigade in 2015. He was promoted to his post in 2013.
Brigadier General Hasan Polat had been appointed as the commander of the 39th Mechanized Infantry Brigade stationed in Iskenderun district of Hatay after the Supreme Military Council in 2014.
All of the generals were expelled from the Turkish Armed Forces after the July 15 coup attempt, accusing them of being members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
Meanwhile, FETÖ sent some successful, patriotic generals to missions abroad in order to secure their invasion plan.
Brigadier General İhsan Başbozkurt, was one of the examples, as he was sent to the Armed Forces Attaché in Baku, from his previous position of commanding the 20th Armored Brigade stationed in Şanlıurfa.
Başbozkurt had led the historic Shah Fırat Operation to relocate the tomb of the founding father of the Ottoman Empire, Süleyman Shah, from Syria to a safe place near the Turkish border.
His appointment in Baku was shown as “an award for his success" in the Shah Fırat operation.
At the same time, when FETÖ seized all the brigades stationed along the Turkey-Syria border, the terror group PKK and Daesh had launched simultaneous attacks on Turkey.
Despite new security measures by installing new equipment on the Turkish border facing Syria, the FETÖ member generals maneuvered their way out of situations that would be detrimental to their terrorist organizations' goals.
It is clear that the border was kept unsafe by the pro-FETÖ generals during the past two years, although the Turkish authority had dug ditches, stationed automated security towers, thermal cameras and wire fences along the border line, according to Eyüp Pınarbaşı, a Police Chief in Şanlıurfa.
Pınarbaşı stated that General Alpcan was the main culprit who allowed Daesh infiltration into Turkey accusing that the commander of the 20th Armored Brigade had repeatedly ignored police intelligence about Daesh militants' activities across the border.
He also claimed that 80 tanks were being held waiting in the Urfa city center, instead of being stationed on the border.
“They should station a tank in each kilometer, because tanks have thermal cameras. It can see 30 kilometers, it can identify every single movement even a rat. Why didn't they station them?" he asked.
On the other hand, more than 200 soldiers and up to 8 armored vehicles had been called back to the barrack from the border crossing a week before the coup attempt.
FETÖ terror group, led by the U.S.-based, so-called cleric Fetullah Gülen, had been infiltrating almost all state institutions for more than three decades to reach their supreme goal, seize the power of the country.
The FETÖ members inside the Turkish military had attempted to stage a coup on July 15, as its members in other sectors, including police, judiciary and media, had prepared for the coup attempt.
Thousands of FETÖ members were detained following the bloody coup attempt that killed more than 240 people as Turkish courts issued an arrest warrant for the mastermind of the coup.
