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Turkey’s Top Commanders Led 2016 Coup, Then Sided with Erdoğan, Ex-General Convicted of Failed Putsch Says - Turkish Minute

A former Turkish brigadier general convicted over the operation to detain President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 told a court that the plan was led by the country’s highest military commanders, the same officers later portrayed by Ankara as loyalists or hostages rather than coup leaders.
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In the General Staff Headquarters case, which was reopened at the Ankara 17th High Criminal Court following the Supreme Court's partial reversal decision, former Brigadier General Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş presented his defense against the main opinion. Speaking in the courtroom at the Sincan Prison Campus, Sönmezateş stated that he accepted his role in the July 15 coup attempt, but did not accept the label of being a "FETÖ member." In his defense…

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Tr724 broke the news on Monday, May 11, 2026.
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