The 19th hearing of the case in which 19 people who are alleged to have directed the investigation into the crash of the helicopter of Great Unity Party (BBP) Founding Chairman Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, on the instructions of FETO ringleader Fetullah Gülen and the organization's executives, was held.
Parties' lawyers, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu's son Furkan Yazıcıoğlu, his older brother Yusuf Yazıcıoğlu, and National Path Party Chairman Remzi Çayır attended the hearing held at the Kahramanmaraş 2nd High Criminal Court. The undetained defendant Davut Uçum, who was convicted of another crime, and the defendant Nusret Memiş, who was arrested in the investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, were connected to the courtroom via the SEGBİS system from the prison where they were located.
At the hearing, Yazıcıoğlu family's lawyer Kemal Yavuz was the first to make his defense. Yavuz stated that there were very serious developments after the main investigation file was sent to Ankara.
Yavuz said: "At this stage, an active investigation is continuing in the main investigation file, operations are continuing. The 1st and 2nd waves have arrived. Our expectation is that the 3rd wave will come. Therefore, an active will has been formed here to investigate the answers to hundreds of unanswered questions in this file. Some of these questions have been clarified to this stage. Let's say, if there are 100 unanswered questions, nearly 30 of them have been answered. Who did what, how did they do it, Where the decision was made has been clarified to a great extent. We expect that all of this will be clarified. Who the perpetrators are, which organized structure carried out the investigation, FETO is everywhere. It is understood that there are FETO members, or people who were made to serve the purpose of FETO in some way, not only in the GPS device, but also in the search and rescue. "We think that in terms of the number of suspects and the subjects investigated. Therefore, we think that the main investigation file should be completed and this file should be combined with that file. However, since it is clear that Ankara has authority, we request that the file be transferred to Ankara. In this context, we request that the file be transferred to Ankara."
Defendant Davut Uçum, who was convicted on the other hand, did not accept the accusations and said, "We are the soldiers who went to inspect the Sikorsky helicopter. If the Sikorsky helicopter had not gone there, none of this military team would have been there. Therefore, those who make claims about us and say that the Sikorsky helicopter was shot down on purpose have to prove their claims."
Nusret Memiş, who was arrested within the scope of the Yazıcıoğlu investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and connected to the hearing via the SEGBİS system, stated that he had been detained for 6 months before with the same accusations and accusations, and said, "I was in the military accident and crime delegation. We were declared as the people who did that job because I shot that video. The people in front of us are innocent, innocent people. I ask for God's sake, can they show one piece of evidence that I committed a crime? What did I do? I made a deliberate move to kill people. I claim that the military accident and crime committed." "All my friends in the team are innocent and innocent like me," he said.
At the end of the hearing, the court rejected the request to send the file to Ankara and decided to wait for the result of the main investigation and postponed the hearing to March 31, 2027.
