Kemal Batmaz

A Turkish court on July 12 delivered its reasoned decision on the case of the Akıncı Air Base, which was used as a command center during the 2016 defeated coup bid in the country by the FETÖ. 

A report by Turkey's Financial Crime Investigation Board (MASAK) listed former Brigadier General Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş's financial links with the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), Doğan News Agency reported on July 27.

Turkey's EU Ministry has appealed to the Ankara 4th High Criminal Court to become an intervening party in the case on events at the Akıncı air base during last year's coup attempt on the grounds that the coup plotters were aiming to topple the government and ruin Turkey's ties with the EU. 

The key suspect in the case on the events at the Akıncı Air Base, considered to be the commanding center of Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt, has denied all allegations during his defense on the second day of the trademark trial.

One of the key court cases regarding the July 15, 2016 military coup attempt kicked off in Ankara on Aug. 1. 

A total of 486 suspects - including the former Air Forces Commander Akın Öztürk, who is accused of running the coup headquarters at the Akıncı Air Base near Ankara - were brought to court for the start of the case. 

Turkey has begun the critical trial on the July 2016 coup attempt, in which 486 suspects stand accused of attempting a putsch to overthrow the elected government from the Akıncı Air Base, considered the central nerve center of the coup.

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. 

There is a common point that connects the July 15, 2016, coup attempt's civilian executive staff who spent the night of the attempted takeover at the Akıncı air base and was then caught by the gendarmerie forces on the morning of July 16, 2016, at the open field near the base with each other. The connection is fiscal relations. 

One of the most interesting pages of the July 15 coup attempt is the long night lived at the Akıncı Air Base, where Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar was held hostage by the coup soldiers until morning.