During the night of July, the 15th, when Erdogan grabbed all the power into his hands in Turkey, the civilians who lost their lives were not killed by the soldiers, yet have been executed by the militia, as the new documents have emerged.
During the controversial July 15 coup attempt that took place in Turkey in 2016, 256 people lost their lives.
However, there is no investigation on exactly how these people were murdered. The soldiers and their lawyers allegedly claim that civilians were killed by unidentified people to incite the crowd against the Turkish Armed Forces.
The lawyers` effort revealed that a significant number of civilians were murdered by ammunition that did not belong to the Turkish Armed Forces` inventory. However, the courts ignored this truth.
Now new data has come up. It’s about civilians being shot in the back of the neck with a sniper shot from a distance.
Akıncı Air Base is the alleged headquarters of the July 15 coup attempt. Journalist Adem Yavuz Arslan highlighted the essential details about the report on the killings of civilians at the entrance of the Akıncı Base.
Arslan’s article is as follows:
Eight people were killed, eighty-seven people were injured at Akinci Base Compound.
According to the indictment and official narrative, civilians who were murdered in the guardhouse were killed by soldiers by raking with long-barreled weapons from close range.
The defendants argue that they did not shoot the civilians.
According to the autopsy reports, Ömer Takdemir, Samet Cantürk, Hasan Yılmaz, Emrah Sapa, Ali Anar succumbed to the bullets entering their nape while Yasin Yılmaz died due to the bullet entered into the right ear area.
Let’s picture the scene. The soldiers are standing in a single row in the guardhouse.
Civilians are face to face with the soldiers at the guardhouse gate. The distance is less than 5 meters only. There are even verbal disputes between the soldiers and the civilians.
How come these people, standing face to face, were shot in the back of the neck?
The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility that civilians started to flee during the turmoil and that the soldiers would aim to shoot on target. However, the bullet entry angles in the autopsy reports do not indicate random shots. In other words, there would be random bullet entries on the victims` bodies if the soldiers shot the civilians at close range, as the prosecutor had claimed in his indictment and obiter dictum. However, all but one of the victims was shot in the scruff and back of the head.
The defendants claim that they were shooting in the air, not targeting the civilians, but civilians were confronted with soldiers and killed by others to provoke the crowd. Eyewitnesses also confirmed that soldiers issued warnings telling the crowd to disband, firing in the air first, and at the feet later on, in compliance with due regulations.
The defendants in the trial even played the sniper sound that was recorded on the scene for the court to hear, but the court rejected the defendants’ demands for a thorough investigation of these recordings.
To sum up, it’s highly suspicious. If the victims had random bullet holes in their bodies, they might have been shot during the chaos. However, 6 out of 8 were shot around the neck and around.
While the court should carefully proceed with the allegations, it does the opposite.