A parliamentary commission investigating the July 15 coup attempt has directed 10 questions to Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar.
The questions are as follows:
- How did you learn about the coup attempt?
- Was there intelligence submitted to you from the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) about suspicions of a coup attempt or an attack on the MİT?
- Did you contact the private secretaries of the Prime Ministry or the Presidency upon receiving this intelligence?
- During your term in office, have you received any report that considers the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) or the Parallel State Structure (PDY) as a threat?
- Have you discovered any FETÖ/PDY members during your term in office? Did you a request a report from MİT in this regard?
- What is the most important reason why you did not notice the infiltration of FETÖ members into the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK)?
- Can you tell us about how you were incapacitated and taken to the Akıncı Air Base and Çankaya Palace?
- Was your neck squeezed with your belt?
- How do you evaluate the statements of Mehmet Dişli [a coup-plotting general] that he was there with you?
- How were you rescued from the Akıncı airbase?
MİT informed the country’s top generals hours before the coup attempt was initiated by a group of soldiers on July 15, while Akar evaluated the information and issued all necessary warnings and orders against “this despicable and miserable attempt,” according to a statement published on the General Staff’s official website on July 19.
Akar has not yet provided answers to the questions.