Okan Müderrisoğlu, Ankara representative of AKP government-controlled Sabah, has written about the background to the visit that Chief of the General Staff Akar made by helicopter to Abdullah Gül. According to Müderrisoğlu, on the visit made "with state sensitivity and the bond from sharing the same home city," the new system was explained to Gül, he was asked "not to be bitter" and he was advised to speak to Erdoğan, but politics was not broached!