18.07.2026 08:20
In the investigation reopened from scratch 17 years after the death of Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, founding chairman of the Great Unity Party (BBP), a shocking confession emerged. It was revealed that the exact location of the wreckage was identified immediately after the accident, but rescue teams were deliberately misdirected to other areas through false information, and Yazıcıoğlu was intentionally left to die.
In the investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, where 19 of the 27 suspects were arrested, the suspects' statements to the prosecutor's office and police revealed the veil of secrecy surrounding the murder. The confessions of İsmail Kaya, who was on duty at the Kahramanmaraş Intelligence Department at the time, uncovered how the search and rescue efforts were systematically sabotaged.
"THEY INSISTENTLY DON'T GO TO THE ADDRESS I FOUND"
According to İsmail Kaya's statement, on the day of the accident, a staff member named İlyas Uçar, who was on duty at the department, conducted a detailed study using base station signal data and pinpointed the accident location within a narrow 1.5-kilometer area with extreme accuracy. However, despite this precise data, the search and rescue teams were not directed to this correct address, and the wreckage could only be reached three days later. As Kaya recounted, despite quickly identifying the location, İlyas Uçar, seeing that the teams were not going to that area, complained, saying, "They insistently don't go to the address I found."
GOAL MISDIRECTED WITH A FAKE INFORMATION NOTE
The answer to the question of why the teams were made to wander aimlessly in the mountains for days, despite knowing the correct address, was also clarified by İsmail Kaya's confessions. Kaya confessed that he sent the critical fake information note, which was disseminated to the press and official institutions, claiming that Yazıcıoğlu's leg was broken on the day of the incident and that he was taken to Göksun State Hospital. It was stated that this fake note, which caused the target area to be completely shifted elsewhere and the rescue efforts to stall, was prepared and circulated on the direct orders of the then Intelligence Chief Dursun Özmen.
THE DEEP FETO TRACE IN THE FILE
In this dark picture where the discovery of the wreckage was prevented, the connections of the suspects with FETO also entered the investigation file. It was determined that civilian Kenan Köksal, who went to the crash site with the crash investigation team despite not being on duty and removed some critical parts from the helicopter, had communication twice with Brigadier General İsmail Güneser, who was appointed as the Martial Law Commander of Bolu-Düzce during the July 15 coup attempt, and numerous times with nine different covert imams. On the other hand, it was found that Ali Armağan, the pilot of the F-4 aircraft flying in the area at the time of the accident, who is currently under arrest for FETO, communicated with the organization's alleged TSK imam Adil Öksüz a total of 152 times between 2012 and 2014. Additionally, on an inside page of a book belonging to Fetullah Gülen seized from Adil Öksüz's home, the fingerprint of Armağan's wife was found.
DENIAL OF SONIC BOOM CLAIMS
Regarding another important aspect of the file—the claims that the helicopter was brought down by a "sonic boom" caused by fighter jets—the pilots denied these allegations. Pilots Ahmet Turan, Nihat Biçer, Tezcan Kaymaz, and Sedat Kılıçarslan, whose names appear in the investigation, argued that it is technically and scientifically impossible to bring down a helicopter with a sonic boom. According to documents obtained by Türkiye Gazetesi, retired NCO Bekir Çerikçi, who served on the Crash Investigation Board, claimed that the accident was not due to deliberate intervention but caused by adverse weather conditions. Defending the situation on the day of the incident, Çerikçi stated, "If 100 flights were conducted under those weather conditions, it is likely that a similar accident would occur in at least 99 of them."