Hulusi akar biography of donald

Six-page testimony

In six pages of testimony, Akar stated that near 9.00 pm (1800GMT) on the failed coup night, Maj. Gen. Mehmet Disli entered his room and said something like, 'Sir, the operation has begun. We'll take everyone, the brigades and troops are on their way'."

"At first I couldn't make any sense of what he said," Akar stated.

"He might have said something about planes. But I understood that there was an operation which I can describe as an uprising. I yelled at him: 'What the hell are you talking about! Are you crazy, don't even think about it!'"

Turkey's top general also stated that he had warned Disli and the coup-plotters about the "path they were taking," and urged him to "end the attempt without causing any deaths and not involving anybody else."

"I couldn't convince them," he stated. "As he was exiting the room, I saw Lt. Serdar, Sgt. Abdullah, and Lt. Col. Levent [Turkkan]," then Akar's aide-de-camp.

Akar said the three soldiers rushed to his room, held him down, and then partially strangled and handcuffed him.

After threatening to kill him, Akar continued, the soldiers took him to Akinci air jet base, northwest of Ankara, to force him to read and sign the coup manifesto.

Akar said he "never even touched" the manifesto which the coup soldiers wanted him to sign to topple Turkey's democratically elected government.

"When they read their manifesto out to me, I listened cynically and without any interest," Akar said.

"Those traitors even called their junta attempt the 'Peace at Home Council,' they said nothing about who belongs to the council," he explained.

Other senior officers who refused to participate were taken hostage, including Akar, who was later rescued from the pro-coup soldiers.

Turkey's government has repeatedly said the deadly coup attempt on July 15, which martyred at least 246 people and injured more than 2,100 others, was organized by followers of Gulen.

Abdullah Bozkurt

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, at the time the chief of general staff, apparently lied about his abduction and captivity during the events of July 15. 2016, when a false flag coup attempt was carried out by Turkish intelligence agency MIT, a witness statement has revealed.

According to the testimony of Maj. Adnan Arıkan, who was assigned to provide security for Akar when he flew by helicopter from General Staff headquarters to Akıncı Air Base, allegedly used by the putschists as a command post.

“The commander [Akar] said in later statements that he was held hostage, but the scene [I witnessed] was nothing like the statements. Even when leaving the General Staff from Gate 1A [the entry gate for top commanders], everyone followed him: When he slowed down, everyone slowed down; when he stopped, everyone stopped; and when he moved on, everyone followed suit. He continued to give orders,” Arıkan explained of what he saw while waiting in the helicopter that had landed in the courtyard to pick Akar up.

The major was ordered by his commanding officer, Col. Fırat Alakuş, who was in charge of the special forces team at the General Staff, to secure the helicopter after its landing and accompany the chief of general staff, who would be taken to a secure location.

Statement by Maj. Adnan Arıkan, who provided security for the chief of general staff, contradicted the hostage claims:

“The commander, who was supposedly being held hostage at that point, asked for his cap. His personal guard, dressed in civilian clothes, hurriedly carried out his order. The cap was delivered to him. Is it logical for a man who feels threatened with his life to act like this and ask for his cap?” Arıkan testified. Camera footage also indicated that Akar was gesturing for his bag.

“The fact that he kept giving orders and that his orders were being executed is the most obvious indication that he continu

Hulusi Akar (1 January 1952-) was Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Army from 18 August 2015, succeeding Necdet Ozel (Umit Dundar was acting Chief of Staff from 15 to 16 July 2016 while Akar was held hostage by mutinous soldiers).

Biography[]

Hulusi Akar was born on 1 January 1952 in Kayseri, Turkey, and he attended the Turkish Military Academy in 1972 and the Infantry School in 1973. Akar also studied international diplomacy at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Akar was experienced as a brigade commander during the Bosnian War, Kosovo War, and the Afghanistan War, experiencing numerous NATO deployments. On 18 August 2015, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Army by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and on 15 July 2016 he was taken hostage by the military during the coup attempt against Erdogan, being held at the military headquarters in Ankara. He was rescued in the early hours of 16 July 2016, and he replaced acting Chief of Staff Umit Dundar as Chief of General Staff upon his rescue.