Assassination attempt against President Erdoğan

The putschist soldiers at Çiğli Main Jet Base preparing for the assassination of President Erdoğan took action. Because two helicopter pilots at Çiğli did not want to go on the duty, the coup group under the leadership of Brigadier General Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş set off from Çiğli to Marmaris with a 1-hour delay. After the information that President Erdoğan, who took off from Dalaman, would land to Istanbul was conveyed to the officials in Istanbul, an operation was carried out at 02:28 at Atatürk Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, upon the order issued by the Police Chief Mustafa Çalışkan to the Special Operations Teams. Putschist soldiers were taken into custody. The assassination squad who took off from Çiğli Main Jet Base reached the hotel in Marmaris, where President Erdoğan was staying. The assassination team landed by rope due to dust and blockaded the hotel. In the conflict, Presidency guard Mehmet Çetin and Marmaris District Police Department police officer Nedip Cengiz Eker were martyred, 9 police officers were injured. After the clashes between the assassination squad and the police officers, the coup plotters, who learned that Erdoğan was not at the hotel, fled from the hotel.