Digital Library of July 15th 15 July 2016 at 11:00

CARD NO 13

22:01

DETAIL Coup-makers opened the first fire on resisting people.

2.8 General Staff Headquarters seized — After Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar had been brought to the Akıncı base, gunshots came from the headquarters. Anti-coup soldiers and police officers clashed with putschist soldiers who had seized the General Staff Headquarters. During the clashes, Cobra helicopters opened fire on police officers in front of the General Staff Headquarters which had been seized by putschist soldiers. A number of ambulances stated arriving in front of the headquarters around 10.40 p.m.

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Civilians built a ‘human wall’ around the General Staff headquarters — Civilians built a ‘human wall’ around the General Staff headquarters

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Putschists wanting to seize the General Staff headquarters, staged a raid on the premises. As civilians poured down into the streets, they clashed with the on-duty soldiers and police officers. In order to thwart the people’s attempts to foil the coup, putschists rained bullets on the crowds from helicopters. Many citizens were martyred at the General Staff’s campus, where some of the longest and most intense clashes took place.

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Tanks crushed the people of Ankara — Tanks crushed the people of Ankara

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The putschists who came to the General Staff Headquarters by tank saw that the citizens had gathered there to obstruct them, and so advanced toward the people with tanks. Clashes lasted until the morning, and many civilians were martyred.

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Ambulance sirens heard at the General Staff Headquarters — Ambulance sirens heard at the General Staff Headquarters

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Guns were fired at the public gathering at the General Staff Headquarters to repel the traitors attacking it on the night of July 15. War planes were flying low and on land, tanks targeted civilians. Many citizens lost their lives as martyrs or were injured. Many ambulances were sent to the area of the General Staff Headquarters after the first shots were fired.

CONFESSIONS

İlhan Talu

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Chief of General Staff Akar's Route — 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.

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CARD NO 14

22:10

CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT Studies were initiated to take the necessary measures against the coup attempt.

2.9 Government takes first measures against the coup — Following the news of the clashes coming from the General Staff, a coordination center was established at the Çankaya Mansion under the chairmanship of Prime Ministry Undersecretary Fuat Oktay. At the same time, the Ministry of the Interior also called all provincial governorates and provincial police directorates and ordered them to be on red alert. The Ministry of Interior called all policemen for duty and canceled their permits.
At around 10.30 p.m., the ministers started to move toward the Çankaya Mansion. Studies were initiated to take necessary measures in cooperation with the Coordination Center. In the meantime, security officers fired with long-barreled guns at unidentified drones that had started flying over the Çankaya Mansion, and removed them from the area.
As teams from the prime ministry could not contact TRT which had been seized by coup makers, they contacted NTV news channel at 10.56 p.m. under the instruction of Prime Ministry Undersecretary Fuat Oktay, so that Prime Minister would join its live broadcast by phone.

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The Interior Ministry’s orders were to respond to the putschists in kindness! — The Interior Ministry’s orders were to respond to the putschists in kindness!

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On the night of the traitorous coup, the putschists opened fire on anyone who tried to stop them as they tried to seize control over the governorate, the security directorates, and other facilities of strategic importance. In the meantime, the Interior Ministry passed orders to all governorates and security directorates, fully authorizing the police to use their weapons and respond to the putschists. The battle erupted against the putschists across the country but mostly in Istanbul, Ankara, and Sakarya, where the battle captured second by second on tape.

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Ministers gathered at Çankaya Palace Complex — Ministers gathered at Çankaya Palace Complex

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When gunshots were heard at the General Staff Headquarters, ministers started to gather at the Prime Ministry’s Çankaya Palace in order to resist against the coup. Security cameras recorded ministers entering Çankaya Palace, which was one of the locations the coup soldiers attacked.

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CARD NO 15

22:15

2.10 Air Operations Center under the control of coup makers — Despite the General Staff’s flight ban in the domestic airspace, putschist soldiers started conducting low-altitude flights over Ankara. Following this, Coordination Center authorities who called the Armed Forces Command Operation Control Center for the second time were told that they were conducting exercises again.
General Abidin Ünal, who was attending a wedding ceremony at the Moda Sea Club, obtained his first information about the insurgency from his wife around 09.30 p.m. After confirming the information, Ünal gathered 17 generals who were at the wedding ceremony and ordered, “Immediately reach your units and prevent departures. Those who cannot prevent departures in their air bases will be subjected to the military court.” Meanwhile, six fighter jets took off from the 8th Main Jet Base in Diyarbakır.
Ünal and 15 generals ordered Air Force Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Hasan Hüseyin Demiraslan and Major General İdris Aksoy to go to the Operations Center in Eskisehir and made a decision to neutralize the Air Operations Center in Ankara, which was under the control of coup plotters.
Başkentte jetlerden alçak uçuş https://t.co/hwPnOEYK9s pic.twitter.com/bQw8SCHcqc
— Yeni Şafak (@yenisafak) 15 Temmuz 2016

STATEMENTS

Abidin Ünal

FOTO GALERİ

The flight record of an F-16 aircraft using the call sign “Kobra67” that were entrusted with the task of tracking down President Erdoğan’s aircraft were revealed. It was determined that this F-16 took off at 11:55 p.m. from Balıkesir, flew over Istanbul and landed back in Balıkesir on 1:05 a.m. The F-16 had two radars and heat seeking missiles.

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Striking footage of the coup attempt in Ankara — Striking footage of the coup attempt in Ankara

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On the night of the coup attempt on July 15 in Ankara, striking footage came out regarding what went on inside the building, at the entrance gate of the Gendarmerie General Command which was one of the most important spots that the police and gendarmerie battled most efficiently with FETÖ member soldiers.

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CARD NO 16

22:37

2.11 First media outlet to announce the coup attempt — Yeni Şafak was the first newspaper to announce that the extraordinary situation was a coup attempt with the title of “Treachery attempt by parallel military officers.” As this news simultaneously reached hundreds of thousands of Yeni Şafak’s mobile app users, it became evident that the extraordinary situation was a military insurgency. Yeni Şafak’s first news piece about the coup attempt was announced to readers as breaking news by other media outlets in a short time.
The first Turkish TV channel to announce that these developments were a coup attempt was TVNET. It announced the treacherous coup attempt under the title of “Treachery attempt by parallel military officers” at 10.51 p.m., saying that Fetullah Terror Group (FETÖ) members had tried to seize the command echelon of the General Staff.
#SonDakikaVatan haini paralel subaylar çıldırdı:Komuta Kademesini ele geçirmeye çalıştılar! https://t.co/UOiBzjVAQq
— Yeni Şafak (@yenisafak) 15 Temmuz 2016

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The public learned of the coup attempt from TVNET — The public learned of the coup attempt from TVNET

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On the night of July 15, the traitors had already set off in tanks and started deploying at strategic locations like bridges and airports. However, no one knew of these extraordinary events at the time. Before any official announcements, before the public understood what was going on, TVNET announced that a coup attempt was happening. TVNET’s headline: “Coup attempt of parallel soldiers,” at 10:51 p.m. displayed what was going on clearly while the first official announcement was made at 11:01 p.m.

EXPLANATION

NOTE:Yeni Şafak introduced the disaster scenario

Upon the extraordinary developments, Yeni Şafak’s software and Information Technologies teams immediately took action. The technical team that launched the disaster scenario activated the disaster system in three different locations.
In case of a problem with the central servers, they activated disaster scenarios in two overseas locations and one domestic location.
The technical team, which assessed the possibility of overloading on the existing server systems, also increased server services by 10 times.

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Yeni Şafak Managing Editor: Coup attempt cannot be stopped without the public claiming the streets! — Yeni Şafak Managing Editor: Coup attempt cannot be stopped without the public claiming the streets!

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Yeni Şafak was the first newspaper to announce that the extraordinary events were indeed a coup attempt with the headline: “An attempt of treachery from parallel soldiers.” Notifications were sent out to hundreds of thousands of Yeni Şafak mobile app users simultaneously. Yeni Şafak Internet Managing Editor Ersin Çelik rushed to the TVNET news studio and called on the public to claim the streets and take control of the situation.

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Close to 2 million interactions in the first 4 hours — Close to 2 million interactions in the first 4 hours

Within the first 4 hours of the July 15th coup attempt, 1,671 million users accessed Yeni Şafak’s Twitter account. A total of 59 news stories were shared 9,265 times. The same posts also garnered 6,924 likes and reached 18,625 clicks.

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Close to 27 million interactions on Twitter during the first 48 hours — Close to 27 million interactions on Twitter during the first 48 hours

During the first 48 hours of the July 15th coup attempt, a total of 27,630,000 people accessed the Yeni Şafak Twitter page, and a total of 550 news stories garnered 106,881 favorites, 98,522 retweets, receiving 377,985 clicks in total.

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CARD NO 17

22:38

MUST SEE Following the coup intelligence, the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) was attacked.

2.12 Air attack on National Intelligence Organization — Military helicopters opened fire on the MİT campus in Yenimahalle, Ankara. Officers in charge of the MİT’s immediate security responded to the attacks with short and long-barreled weapons. Following the clash, coup-making soldiers had to withdraw.

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Attack against National Intelligence Service by helicopters — Attack against National Intelligence Service by helicopters

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Another target for the putschists on the night of the coup attempt was the National Intelligence Service located in Yenimahalle, Ankara. The putschists attacked MIT by helicopter. The security of the service retaliated, and a tough conflict broke out.

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CARD NO 18

22:40

2.13 Social media was blocked — After the coup attempt was reflected on the media, great disinformation emerged on social media platforms. As the possibility of provocations increased, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others were closed for a short time. They were reopened after quite a short while and functioned as an important instrument in establishing connection and repelling the coup attempt.

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Putschists were repelled on Twitter — Putschists were repelled on Twitter

Social media also had a great contribution to the repression of FETÖ's coup attempt. Millions of people found out about the coup attempt on Twitter and went to the streets to repel it. The number of tweets sent on July 15 was 35 times higher than the average. A total of 495,000 shares were made on Twitter within 4 hours.

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CARD NO 19

22:00

CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT Occupations by putschist soldiers started spreading.

2.7 Occupations by putschist soldiers spread — A group of military students, who were summoned to the Kuleli Military High School on the grounds of military exercise, moved out of the school to seize the Çengelköy Police Station. In the meantime, putschist troops coming out of the Habipler Topkule Barracks came in front of the Bayrampaşa Mobile Force building.
While armored vehicles and tanks which moved from the Topkule Barracks were traveling around Esenler, people pouring out to the streets wanted to stop them. The armored vehicles progressed by crushing over people and martyred six of them.
When it came to 10.15 p.m., the Istanbul Atatürk Airport was seized by putschist soldiers who had come to the airport with tanks.
A group of soldiers in the vicinity of the Anatolian side also raided the Sabiha Gökçen Airport to seize it. Both the Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports were seized by coup plotters. The troops from the 66th Armored Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command headed toward the Istanbul Police Headquarters. When they arrived at Vatan Street at 10.30 p.m., they started opening fire on people who had poured onto the streets. 15 minutes previous, Istanbul Police Chief Mustafa Çalışkan and his team had left the building. Çalışkan and his team headed toward the July 15 Martyrs' Bridge in a convoy.
At 10.49 p.m., reinforcing forces from the Istanbul 2nd Armored Brigade were sent to these occupied places.
In the same hours, people gathered in front of the Government Office in Şırnak’s Cizre district upon calls that were made via mosque loudspeakers. They prevented putschist soldiers on the bridge over the Tigris River.

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Tanks set off with ammunition — Tanks set off with ammunition

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Many tanks and armored personnel carriers (APC) set off from the Istanbul 2nd Armored Brigade to be used in the coup attempt on July 15. After the coup attempt was repelled, the details emerging from the vehicles of the brigade were spine chilling.

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Istanbul Security Directorate stopped the putschists — Istanbul Security Directorate stopped the putschists

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Yeni Şafak daily covered the events that took place in the Istanbul Security Directorate during the first hours of the July 15 coup attempt. Published for the first time, the footage shows the head of the Provincial Security Directorate, Mustafa Çalışkan, and his squad, as they left the directorate at 21:45. The squad clashed with the traitors on the bridge and returned at 8:00 the following morning. Çalışkan held a short meeting at the directorate’s garden.

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An incursion at Sabiha Gökçen Airport — An incursion at Sabiha Gökçen Airport

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Sabiha Gökçen Airport was one of the locations occupied by the putschist soldiers on the night of July 15. Putschist soldiers attacked the airport, raining bullets on people.

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Exit from Kuleli Military School — Exit from Kuleli Military School

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Another target for the putschists was the Istanbul Governorship building. Seizing control over this vital facility was another step that would ensure the success of the coup. In order to facilitate the attack, the putschists summoned a group of soldiers to the governorship from the 47th Motorized Infantry Regiment. The putschists swept the offices one by one as they raided the building. Later, citizens armed only with chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’ attempted to stop them, blocking their entry into the governorship.

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Civilians were on tank duty in front of the barracks — Civilians were on tank duty in front of the barracks

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Some of the tanks used during the coup attempt were from the General Nurettin Baransel Barracks located in Kartal, Istanbul. People who received the news of the coup attempt stood on watch in front of the barracks until the morning to prevent the tanks from leaving, forming a wall of flesh. After the operation held toward the morning by the police force, six soldiers attempting the coup were taken into custody.

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Atatürk Airport under occupation — Atatürk Airport under occupation

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Atatürk Airport was one of the most important targets that the putschists tried to seize on the night of July 15. Acting under the supervision of Colonel Mustafa Kol, putschist soldiers, accompanied by tanks, headed to the airport and blocked all entrance and exit points. At 10:54 p.m. the airport, including the tower, was seized by the putschists. Later, after President Erdoğan invited people to go down into the streets, citizens flooded the airport and blocked tanks from advancing. The airport was reclaimed.

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“Homeland” under protection — “Homeland” under protection

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The public did not allow passage to coup soldiers who arrived from the 66th Armored Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command and attacked Istanbul Police Headquarters on Vatan Avenue with two tanks and five armored personnel carriers (APC). Police opened fire and prevented a helicopter arriving to provide backup to the coup soldiers from landing.

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Tanks overran police stations with tanks — Tanks overran police stations with tanks

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Accompanied by tanks taken from the Habibler Topkule Barracks, putschists started moving following the directives of putschist Commander Major Murat Çelebioğlu, who order them “to not allow even a single police officer out of Bayrampaşa.” Upon arriving in front of the Security Directorate, the traitors first stopped the traffic, then occupying the Riot Police Branch Directorate, they blocked all entrance and exit points using tanks. Using their bodies as shields, civilians fought the traitors who opened fire on them until the morning hours.

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No trespassing for APCs (armored personnel carrier) in Şırnak — No trespassing for APCs (armored personnel carrier) in Şırnak

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Şırnak was one of the cities that experienced the coup attempt. Coup soldiers were sent to the city in APCs to hold strategic spots in Şırnak but they were met with resistance. The public went out to the square with the slogan: “Shoulder to shoulder against the coup” on the call from the mufti’s office made from the mosque’s speaker and intercepted the coup soldiers together with police forces and stopped their progress.

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Metin Doğan lied down under a tank — Metin Doğan lied down under a tank

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Metin Doğan, who lied down in front of the tank at Atatürk Airport during the July 15 coup attempt that was perpetrated by FETÖ, said: “I believe that every citizen of this nation, man or woman, has the character to do the same.”

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A night of bloodshed in Esenler — A night of bloodshed in Esenler

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Putschist soldiers who left Topkule Barraks in tanks on the night of July 15 turned the O-3 highway into a blood bath when faced with citizens who wanted to stop them in the Esenler area. The putschist soldiers did not hesitate to run over people who threw themselves in front of the tanks as they crushed cars on the road and opened fire in order to advance. Those moments were captured on citizens’ cameras.

EXPLANATION

NOTE:62 military students arrested

A total of 62 students from the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of the Kuleli Military High School were arrested as part of the probe into the coup attempt.
These 62 students rejected the charges during the interrogation. Students made similar statements in their assertions, with some of them saying that they had been called to attend a cocktail at school, while others saying that they had been given empty G3s under the name of a military exercise. They alleged that they had been promised that they would be allowed to pass the make-up examination if they had succeeded in the operation.

EXPLANATION

NOTE:Putschist troops taking the road

The troops that took the road with the coup-plotters’ order had 10 cannonball bullets and 2,000 MG3 bullet series for tanks, 165 cannonballs for armored combat vehicles and nearly 5,000 bullets for armored personnel carriers.
The coup makers took the following military vehicles for the reinforcement of their team on the Fatih Sultan Mehmet and Bosporus bridges:
- Two tanks
- Two armored personnel carriers

For the Sabiha Gökçen Airport:
- Four tanks
- Two armored personnel carriers
- Two armored combat vehicles

For the 1st Army Command and Acıbadem Telekom:
- Four armored personnel carriers for each.
For Mobile Forces:
- Eight tanks
- Two armored personnel carriers
- Two armored combat vehicles

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Istanbul on the night of July 15 — Istanbul on the night of July 15

Istanbul was one of the most critical provinces during the July 15 coup attempt.

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Putschists in the Turkish military in numbers — Putschists in the Turkish military in numbers

Warplanes, tanks and helicopters were used by putschists during the coup attempt.

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2.14 The occupation of TRT

The coup soldiers, who planned all the phases of the coup plan in a step-by-step manner, occupied many places in Istanbul and Ankara. After the occupation, the putschists launched air attacks.

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