One of those questions is how Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım found out about it in spite of the fact that he says Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), did not inform him even when Yıldırım phoned him that night amid the unfolding incidents.

This question is relevant because according to the Turkish legislation, the MİT chief is directly responsible for reporting to the Prime Minister, and it was Yıldırım who was the first voice from the government to address the people through a telephone connection with the private channel NTV at 23:02, almost two hours after the coup soldiers pushed the button and said this was not a coup done by the military’s chain of command but an “uprising” by a junta taking orders from Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is accused of masterminding the coup to overthrow the Turkish government.