United States Army Special Forces

The Special Forces Commander Lieutenant Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, who commanded anti-coup forces during the July 15 attempt and the Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria, was reshuffled to command the Second Army Corps in the western region of Gelibolu.

The appointments that had not come into effect with the Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) were announced in the Official Gazette on Aug. 19.

Police have foiled a major attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that had been planned to hit the Turkish capital Ankara.

The police carried out a raid and seized a massive amount of ammonium nitrate from an address in the Çukurova district of the southern province of Adana on Aug. 11, Doğan News Agency reported on Aug. 15.

Police have foiled a major attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that had been planned to hit the Turkish capital Ankara.

The police carried out a raid and seized a massive amount of ammonium nitrate from an address in the Çukurova district of the southern province of Adana on Aug. 11, Doğan News Agency reported on Aug. 15.

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were planning to stage attacks by disguising themselves as police officers in the southern province of Adana.  

The Interior Ministry will send a team of inspectors to the Black Sea province of Trabzon to investigate allegations of negligence in the recent killing of a 15-year-old boy by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

A critical trial on events at the Akıncı Airbase, which was used as the center of the coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016, began on Aug. 1 in the capital Ankara, with a total of 486 suspects being tried. 

A critical trial on events at the Akıncı Airbase, which was used as the center of the coup attempt on the night of July 15, 2016, will start on Aug. 1. The trial will take place in the capital Ankara at a courtroom exclusively built for the coup trials. 

The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wrote another article in English after the one published by the British newspaper The Guardian. This fact alone indicates that he is making an effort to send a series of messages to the West.

Chief Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir took an order over the phone on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt from Special Forces Commander Zekai Aksakallı: "I am giving you a historic duty in the name of our country and nation. Brigadier General Terzi is a traitor, an insurgent. Kill him before he enters the headquarters. There is martyrdom at the end of this. Give your blessing."
 

The Turkish Patent Institute has patented the name of Ömer Halisdemir, a non-commissioned Turkish officer who was killed during last year's coup attempt after resisting a raid by Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)-linked soldiers at the Special Forces Command in Ankara.