Indicating that the coup plotters understood that TV broadcasts were continuing when they came back to the building after a telephone call came to them around 1 hour later and that he had a close brush with death at that time, Akkaya talked about what he experienced as follows:
Darbeciler binaya döndüklerinde yaklaşık 1 saat sonra kendilerine gelen telefonla TV yayınlarının devam ettiğini anladığını, ve o an ölümle burun buruna geldiğini belirten Akkaya, yaşadıklarını şöyle anlattı: