Doğan Güreş

Doğan Güreş
Chief of the General Staff of Turkey
In office
6 December 1990  30 August 1994
Preceded by Necip Torumtay
Succeeded by İsmail Hakkı Karadayı
Commander of the Turkish Army
In office
23 August 1989  6 December 1990
Preceded by Kemal Yamak
Succeeded by Muhittin Füsunoğlu
Personal details
Born (1926-02-15)15 February 1926
Kilis, Turkey
Died 14 October 2014(2014-10-14) (aged 88)
Ankara, Turkey
Military service
Allegiance Turkey
Service/branch Turkish Army
Years of service 1947-1994
Rank General
Unit Armoured Corps - M4 Sherman - 1947 to 1954 and M47 Patton - 1954 to 1965
Commands B Tank Company, 1st Btn 2nd Armoured Brigade (1955-1959)
1st Battalion, 2nd Armoured Brigade (1961-1965)
Special Warfare Department Regiment II (1964-1972)
2nd Armoured Brigade (1972-1977)
National Military Academy (1977-1980)
5th Corps (1980-1987)
First Army (1987-1990)

Doğan Güreş (15 February 1926 – 14 October 2014) was a Turkish general and True Path Party politician.[1] He was Chief of the General Staff of Turkey from 1990 to 1994, having been Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1987 - 1989) and Commander of the Turkish Army (1989 - 1990). In 1992 he proclaimed self-confidently that "Turkey is a military state".[2] After his retirement in 1994 he was elected to parliament for the True Path Party in the 1995 parliamentary elections (representing Kilis), and re-elected in 1999, serving until November 2002. He was also True Path's presidential candidate in the Turkish presidential election, 2000.

The 1991 Yeşilova incident took place under his tenure as Chief of the General Staff, as did the 1992 Operation Northern Iraq and the 26 July 1994 bombing of North Iraq.

Doğan Güreş died in the GATA hospital in Ankara on 14 October 2014.

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References

  1. Özcan, Gencer, "The Military and the Making of Foreign Policy in Turkey", In: Kirişci, Kemal (red.) & Rubin, Barry (red.): Turkey in World Politics. An Emerging Multiregional Power, Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, 2001. pp. 16-20.
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