After the coup attempt had been suppressed, a total of 15 tanks from the 3rd Armored Brigade Command in the Çerkezköy District of Tekirdağ were sent to Istanbul in the presence of police teams as a security measure.
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A 20-hour operation.
Armed clashes arose in front of the 2nd Army Command, which had been seized by FETÖ-linked soldiers. Putschist soldiers pulled guns on Malatya Governor Mustafa Toprak and Malatya Police Chief Ömer Urhal at the main entrance when they came to the 2nd Army Command Headquarters.
The Malatya Metropolitan Municipality dug trenches in front of the military unit with municipal vehicles in order to immobilize coup plotters and prevent them from going out from the headquarters. The subsequent operations lasted for 20 hours and a putschist major from the 2nd Army died and seven others were injured.
General Adem Huduti stated in his testimony that coup plotters had wanted him to lead them, but he had not accepted it. This claim was refuted by a footage of 17 hours and 22 minutes of the insurgency at the Malatya 2nd Army, which was the second pillar of the July 15 coup attempt.
A total of eight military transport aircrafts which unlawfully took off from the 12th Air Main Base Transportation Command in Erkilet, Kayseri landed at the 7th Main Jet Base Command in Erhaç, Malatya. Two Airbus A400M and six C-130 military transport aircrafts carried 39 high-ranking military officers, aircraft technicians, musketeer sergeants and ammunition. This team would initiate the second wave of the coup attempt by loading bombs and missiles into the F-4E 2020 fighter planes at the Malatya Base Command.
Malatya Governorate and Malatya Police Department authorities instructed the Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting team, after eight military transport aircrafts from Kayseri unlawfully landed in Erhaç, Malatya. The Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting team started their vehicles and closed the ways leading to the runway. Although putschist soldiers pulled guns, the team did not pull the vehicles and prevented the takeoff of aircrafts.
The Ministry of Interior announced that a total of 336 Fetullah Terror Organization (FETÖ) members had been detained. Also, a total of 29 FETÖ-affiliated colonels and five generals, who had been involved in the coup attempt, were discharged by the Minister of the Interior Efkan Ala at 07.50 a.m.