Tanjug, Politika, | 21. 09. 2016 to 08: 39h

http://www.blic.rs/vesti/svet/kako-je-jedan-poziv-iz-moskve-spasao-erdoganov-zivot/1nd298n

Had it not been for one phone call from Moscow, the big question is whether the Turkish President Erdogan would be alive at all today, let alone in power, writes "Politika".

As they say, the data obtained by the newspaper came from very reliable sources that reveal previously unknown details of a failed coup on July 15, writes "Politika".

Coup, whose striking force was supposed to represent the Air Force, was scheduled to begin on 16 July at three in the morning and started six hours earlier.

The decisive event, which has largely determined by the fate of coup, occurred a few days earlier, on June 27, when the Kremlin announced that Vladimir Putin received a letter from Erdogan in which the Turkish president apologizes for shooting down a Russian "Sukhoi-24" in November over Syria .

In the atmosphere of renewed contacts, head of the Russian intelligence service FSB Aleksandar Bortnjikov on 15 July afternoon calls on the line of his Turkish counterpart, Chief of the National Security Organization (MIT), and Erdogan's man of confidence Hakan Fidan.

Bortnjikov says he has information that at airports throughout Turkey their helicopters and hunters are refueled and asks him if this has anything to do with operations in Syria or in military exercises.

Fidan was surprised. He did not know anything about a military exercises on a national scale. He knows that there are no plans for air intervention in Syria. He calls by a telephone the Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, writes "Politika".

The commander of the Turkish army also does not know what it is on, promises to check and Fidan says to call him in an hour. On repeated calls at the agreed time general Akar, who was kidnapped by rebels, meanwhile, does not respond.

Fidan then in the unusual circumstances informs Erdogan who is on holiday in Marmaris where from he immediately calls Major General Zekaija Aksakalija, commander of special forces, according to "Politika".

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