Cevheri Güven Unveils the Mastermind Behind the Leaks: Exposing the Truth of July 15
The Inimitable Cevheri Güven
Journalist Cevheri Güven is no stranger to pursuing inconvenient truths in Turkey. As an investigative reporter for over 20 years, he built his name uncovering mafia crimes before expanding into allegations of state corruption, arms trafficking, and underground deep state networks tied to Turkeys ruling AKP party.
His daring and irreverent reporting has earned him admiration amongst transparency advocates but vitriol amongst the establishment. Pro-government media brands him a liar and terrorist sympathizer. Authorities have arrested him multiple times over his career, trying to deter his reporting through intimidation and exile. A bomb even destroyed his car in 2009.
“I receive threats everyday because I choose to pursue truth and transparency,” says Güven plainly.
But the veteran journalist refuses to flinch, even expanding his commentary into the digital realm with his popular YouTube commentary channel. This channel provided the platform for Güven’s latest explosive investigation using insider testimonies to uncover secrets about the hazy July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
Breaking the Silence: Gökhan Şahin Sönmez Ateş Speaks Out
Despite the years of threats, exiled figures like Cevheri Güven provide rare portals for suppressed voices to emerge. And emerge they have. Fed up with the false narratives and opaque investigations into July 15, insiders are beginning to break their silence.
The testimony of Gökhan Şahin Sönmez Ateş proves especially hard hitting. The former Staff Colonel was commander of the Special Forces Search and Rescue Battalion stationed at the Akıncı Air Base on the outskirts of Ankara on that fateful night. This base operated as the epicenter for plotters coordinating the coup. Anyone present would possess insider knowledge into the events and actors behind the attempt.
Yet despite Sönmez Ateş occupying this critical vantage point, authorities tried to downplay and sideline his role. Prosecutors buried key evidence he presented, including a letter proving he tried reporting parallel networks within the military years prior. He believes this suppression meant to stop his testimony “from making a sound.”
But in partnership with Cevheri Güven, the defiant officer has broken past barriers of intimidation to reveal explosive revelations around the true planners of the July 15 coup attempt. The details expose attempts to cover up inconvenient truths and prevent full accountability.
Missing Radar Records Raise Red Flags
Key among the cover up attempts are suspicious gaps in military flight plans and radar records on and around July 15. As an Air Force officer, Sönmez Ateş explains coordination between fighter jets and tanker planes provided essential capability to plotters in transporting troops and, in extreme contingencies, shooting down President Erdoğan’s plane.
Yet no radar or maintenance logs exist at the critical Akıncı and Eskişehir air bases spanning dates before, during, and after July 15. Neither Air Force Commander Abidin Ünal nor the base commander presented the records.
“You cannot plan a complex military operation involving multiple aircraft without flight logs and radar records. Either the records were deliberately erased, or commanders are engaged in a coverup,” asserts Sönmez Ateş.
The missing logs raise red flags over the true perpetrators wishing to obscure their coordination surrounding July 15 events. Were high ranking insiders complicit?
Akar’s Cryptic Silence and Parallel Networks
Alongside the suspicious gaps in air logs, the silence of key military figures presents another barrier to transparency. As chief military hostage on July 15, Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar’s first hand testimony would prove invaluable. Instead, he instructed all present officers to suppress their accounts, even refusing calls to speak out post-coup.
Sönmez Ateş recounts Akar’s troubling insistence that July 15 was just a “scenario writ large by Gülenists.” This meshes with the official government narrative pinning culpability solely on religious scapegoat Fethullah Gülen. It willfully ignores clues pointing to other Deep State factions.
Former elite commando Ahmet Zeki Üçok tried exposing such clandestine factions in a 2008 book revealing “imams” and secret military cells. Yet officials suppressed these leads around parallel state networks that may have participated in coordinating the coup attempt.
According to Turkish political expert Dr. Hakan Yavuz at the University of Utah, “The Turkish Deep State is not merely an ultranationalist network nested only in the security sector. It draws from a much wider web including political parties, crime syndicates and sections of civil society, allowing it to influence and direct official organs of the state.”
By suppressing all inquiry into these parallel structures, authorities prioritize their predetermined narrative over judicious investigation. They ignore revelations raising alarm around infiltration of the military not just by Gülenists, but potentially a broader “state within a state.” Any legitimate inquest into July 15 must follow the facts wherever they may lead.
Cevheri Güven – Continuing a Legacy of Bold Reporting
Indeed, critical insiders and whistleblowers will prove key to unraveling the tangled web around July 15 coup culprits. These defiant truth tellers risk their careers, reputations and personal safety in pursuit of transparency. Their courage stands as a testament to the Turkish civic spirit demanding accountability, even in the face of imprisonment or exile.
Figures like prosecutor Muhammed Akkas and police chief Hüseyin Toros who exposed Turkish state collusion in arms transfers to jihadists in Syria demonstrate similar bravery from within the government apparatus itself. Their leaks peel back the veneer of official narratives to reveal the unsavory realities beneath.
Cevheri Güven proudly channels this bold legacy of Turkish muckraking journalism. He stands amongst other luminaries like Uğur Mumcu, who was assassinated while investigating links between politics, terrorism and organized crime.
“If they think they will silence me, they’re mistaken,” asserts Cevheri. “As long as I’m still drawing breath, I will continue exposing the unlawful and unscrupulous acts taking place in the shadows of the political system.”
Through conduits like Güven, critical insiders may come forward to reveal a more complete picture of the factions and motivations behind the momentous July 15 events. Their revelations chip away at official fictions obscuring the truth. Each brave voice presents an opportunity for Turkish society to honestly reckon with a turbulent past so it may work towards a more just future.