July 15 and İncirlik Air Base (1): 'ASENA' in the sky

The recording starting at 9:34 a.m. on July 16, 2016 is between the tanker aircraft pilot returning to the İncirlik Air Base and Staff Captain Mustafa Mete Kaygusuz who directed the flights in the air from the Akıncı Aır Base at the 141st Fleet until the morning. It is a farewell speech.

(At the time when the conversation takes place) the coup attempt has been finalized unsuccessfully: The coup plotters at Akıncı had started to leave the base. In the meantime, the pilot of the tanker informs the 141st Fleet that the "United Command Center" (in Eskişehir) has called and said "the İncirlik Aır Base was under control and told us to land."

Sometime later Kaygusuz answered the pilot, "You can land at İncirlik."
"We are continuing on to İncirlik," replied the pilot.

"Thank you for all the work and everything, thank you for your efforts, we are on the return route to İncirlik..." he added.
The "work" and the "efforts" which the pilot thanked for, must be the attacks of the F-16's taking off from the Akıncı Base and terrorizing the capital from air until the morning, bombing eight different institutions, resulting in the loss of 70 innocent people's lives. Kaygusuz is the one who directed some of these attacks. 

On the document in the indictment, the name of the pilot who had this conversation with Kaygusuz is not mentioned. However, when we look at the Akıncı Base indictment, we have a reasonable guess regarding the person who used the tanker aircraft.

The aircraft the conversation takes place in is the last one of the three tanker aircrafts that took off from the İncirlik Base during the coup attempt. The commander of the aircraft with the "ASENA 03" call sign was Lieutenant Hızır Özyuva and next to him there was...

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