Transcripts of WhatsApp messages purportedly traded by a gathering of Turkish upset plotters uncover a chilling tick-tock of how the July 15-16 putsch unfurled, from a smooth begin to a nerve racking completion.
On the off chance that the late Turkish upset endeavor was successfully thwarted on FaceTime, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swung to online networking to issue his approach Turks to take to the lanes, the putsch plot seemed to have unfurled on WhatsApp.
A transcript of WhatsApp visits got by Al Jazeera Turk uncovers how the upset plotters propelled their offer to seize power on July 15 and soon thereafter, amid that long, portentous night, the plot began to disentangle as the tide betrayed the plotters.
The posts on the portable informing application were gathered from video footage and still photos acquired by the Qatar-based TV station's Turkish channel not long after the fizzled overthrow. They were deciphered from the first Turkish dialect and broke down throughout the weekend by the UK-based open source investigative site, bellingcat.com.
HOW DID ERDOGAN ESCAPE MILITARY COUP?
At 9.15pm neighborhood time on Friday, July 15, a Turkish military officer, Major Murat Celebioglu, makes a WhatsApp bunch named "Yurtta sulh", which actually signifies, "peace at home".
The gathering's name is a reference to an adage by Turkey's establishing father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, which as each Turkish schoolchild knows, goes, "Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh" - or "Peace at home, peace on the planet".
A putschist articulation discharged that critical night was marked by a gathering calling itself, the "Yurtta Sulh Konseyi" - or "Peace at Home Council" - in a sign that the overthrow endeavor was propelled by hardline Kemalists inside the Turkish military.
Erdogan has faulted his curve Islamist enemy, Fetullah Gulen, for the endeavored upset, a charge the Pennsylvania-based Turkish pastor has denied.
The Yurtta sulh bunch seems to have been made to empower a correspondence trade between master upset military officers charging units in Istanbul. Celebioglu has all the earmarks of being planning the Istanbul operations with kindred plotters in the capital of Ankara. Be that as it may, the Yurtta sulh talk gives no points of interest on correspondences between putschists working in Istanbul and Ankara.
The WhatsApp posts uncover a measure of arranging that has not been credited to the July 15-16 overthrow plotters, who have been generally rejected as feckless and severely sorted out.
It additionally uncovers how Erdogan's FaceTime meeting with CNN-Turk changed the tide of history and all the more critically, how unarmed Turks, by paying attention to the Turkish pioneer's call to take to roads, succeeded in overwhelming the putschists.
'Tell our police companions: I kiss their eyes'
"I'm Maj. Celebioglu," peruses the primary post quickly after the WhatsApp gathering was made July 15, "I'll be making open declarations from here."
It was the first of an unfathomable trade - from coldly certain to glorying and afterward down and out - itemizing how the upset plot disentangled.
Commencing with movement arrangements to handle Istanbul's broadly gridlocked roads, the plot disentangles at fast when the request is given for directions to be "taken quickly".
As armed force divisions - no less than three of them from Turkey's NATO Rapid Deployable Corps - begin to take key destinations, including Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge and a military foundation, the plot gives off an impression of being running reasonably easily.
Police units and boss, dazed by the unprecedented unforeseen development, at first agree to the putschists, prompting thankful posts, for example, "police are taking after requests… no issue," and, "Tell our police companions: I kiss their eyes."
The media is the message
Be that as it may, the "police companions" end up being a long way from consistent at last, with a police unit, at a certain point, securing the putschists and bringing in a prosecutor in the dead of night.
By a long shot the greatest disappointment was the upset plotters' endeavors to control the media.
From the begin, the plotters experience issues television their message to the Turkish individuals.
While a military unit achieves the workplaces of the national open telecaster, TRT (Turkish Radio and Television) before 10pm, the plotters experience unexpected obstacles. "They are direly asking for assistance from the specialized group of the Air Force to cut off television," informed Col. Kaya at 9.56pm. "They are attempting themselves, however can't do it."
However, while the plotters succeed in at long last assuming control TRT and getting a stay to peruse out the upset message, the expansion of private TV stations represents a noteworthy test.
CNN Turk was under specific weight subsequent to the channel telecasted an announcement by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildrim at 11pm on July 15, an advancement that is noted by the WhatsApp bunch with a laconic, "Head administrator is creating an impression."
The upset busting Erdogan meeting, directed by a CNN Turk columnist by means of FaceTime not long after 12 pm, however was never specified by the Yurtta sulh bunch.
Yet, the impacts of that basic TV appearance are apparent in the WhatsApp correspondence as ace upset military units battle to contain the group regarding Erdogan's call.
That is the point at which the WhatsApp correspondence tackles a frantic, ruthless tone uncovering aggravating experiences into the grisly end of an upset endeavor that asserted more than 300 lives.
'Insignificant photographs' – trailed by an emoji
"I'm wanting to start shooting at common police HQ. There's no other decision," messages a frantic Maj. Akkaya as the group pour onto the avenues of the Turkish business capital. Close to Istanbul's Kuleli Military High School, another Turkish armed force real notes, "We have shot 4 individuals who were opposing… Everything is fine."
In any case, everything was not fine, particularly in the city's Acibadem neighborhood.
At a certain point, an armed force official, Maj. Mehmet Karabekir, shoots a mukhtar - or headman in charge of an area - at point clear range. He then continues to share two photographs, fail to specify that a regular citizen has quite recently been shot.
"Mehmet, how about we not share insignificant photographs," Maj. Celebioglu rebukes, to which Karabekir reacts with an emoji.
Notwithstanding the reprimand, Karabekir gives off an impression of being doing his putschist obligations with disturbing energy, posting the absolute most brutal messages on the talk bunch. "Try not to set out delay, hit them," he mobilizes at a certain point, trailed by a more unequivocal, "Pound them, smolder them, no trade off."
As the group begin the pustchists, the messages get progressively frantic. "Our men at the governorship have been invade by the group, they are giving them over to the police. The police are attempting to keep the group yet it is hard," messages a frantic lieutenant-colonel, to which, the voracious Karabekir answers with an unavoidable, "Smash them, blaze them, no trade off."
At the end of the day, another officer reprimands him with a, "C'mon Mehmet," however by then the upset plotters are getting frantic.
"Going on a request," messages a lieutenant-general before continuing altogether tops: "Swarms THAT HAVE GATHERED WILL BE FIRED ON."
'Stay alive, officer. The decision is yours'
Yet, the group simply continue spilling onto the boulevards, overwhelming the putschists in a challenging showcase of open will.
"IMKB (Istanbul Stock Exchange) is going to fall. They've broken the entryways," says a colonel before arguing, "Need assistance."
As units accepted to be in favor of the putschists flip sides and the group at Taksim Square begin swelling, the plotters frantically call for planes to fly low over the milestone Istanbul site.
"Taksim are stating they can't take any longer," says a colonel, to which, a partner reacts, "for whatever length of time that our quality hangs tight, companions."
Be that as it may, that is not for long. The last messages are a just about novelistic depiction of how an overthrow plot fails and passes on.
"We're stopping??" asks a noteworthy.
"Which operation, every last bit of it?" shoots a colonel.
"Yes quit, administrator," answers Major Celebioglu, the man who set up the WhatsApp gather hours prior.
However, the message is still not clear to authorities on the ground. "Importance?" asks a colonel curtly.
"Yes, officer, operation prematurely ended," answers Celebioglu.
Seconds after the fact, after the colonel asks, "Should we get away?" he gets a fatalistic answer: "Stay alive, authority. The decision is yours. We have not chose yet. In any case, we have left our position. I'm shutting the gathering. Erase the messages on the off chance that you need."
The visit transcripts uncover a great many members leaving the Yurtta sulh bunch. Not the greater part of the overthrow plotters succeeded in erasing the messages and the gathering talk will most likely come back to embroil them in the tumultuous days to come
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