Abdullah Recep

Abdullah Recep (* 1955 in Tirebolu , Giresun Province ) is a Turkish general of the army (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri) who was, among other things, commander of the Army Academy (Kara Harp Akademisi) between 2014 and 2015 and since 2015 Commander in Chief of the Aegean Army (Ege Ordusu ) is.

Life

Officer and staff officer

After attending school, Recep began his training as an officer in the engineering force at the Army School (Kara Harp Okulu) and graduated in 1975 as a lieutenant (Teğmen) . He then served as an officer in the engineering battalion of III between 1976 and 1981. Corps, in the engineering battalion of the 39th Infantry Division and as platoon leader of a training course at the engineering school (İstihkam Okulu) . From 1981 to 1982 he was company commander in the civil engineering battalion of the 3rd Army .

Recep then completed his training as a staff officer at the Army Academy (Kara Harp Akademisi) from 1982 to 1984 and was subsequently company commander in the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 19th Infantry Brigade and from 1986 to 1989 planning officer in the Operations and Training Department of the IX . Corps, before he was planning and project officer in the planning department of the personnel department of the General Staff of Turkey between 1989 and 1993 . This was followed from 1993 to 1994 as commander of the 1st Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 61st Motorized Infantry Brigade, which was used during this time in an internal security operation in the province of Şırnak .

Recep then served between 1994 and 1997 as an officer in the Peacekeeping Unit of the Operations Planning Department at NATO Headquarters in Mons and in 1997 as an officer in the Personal Office of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces , General İsmail Hakkı Karadayı . After a subsequent training at the Armed Forces Academy (Silahlı Kuvetler Akademisi) he was from 2000 to 2001 commander of the regiment of the Presidential Guard (Cumhurbaşkanlığı Muhafız Alay) .

Promotion to general

After his promotion to Brigadier General (Tuğgeneral) on August 30, 2001, Recep was head of the Internal Security Operations Department in the General Staff between 2001 and 2004 and then commander of the 16th tank brigade from 2004 to 2006.

In 2006 he was promoted to major general (Tümgeneral) . As such, he was transferred to NATO's Allied Command Transformation ( ACT ) in Norfolk , where he was Deputy Chief of Staff for Resources and Logistics. He was then on August 19, 2008 as the successor to Major General Mehmet Eröz Commander of the Armed Forces of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC Güvenlik Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı) and Commander of the Turkish Forces in Cyprus (Kıbrıs Türk Barış Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı) . He held this post until his replacement by Major General Mehmet Daysal on August 17, 2010.

Recep was promoted to lieutenant general (co- general ) in 2010 and served as the head of the operations department in the General Staff between 2010 and 2012 and then from 2012 to 2014 as the commanding general of the VII Corps in Elazığ .

After his promotion to General (Orgeneral) , Recep succeeded General Yalçın Ataman as the commander of the General Staff Academy (Harp Akademileri) of the Armed Forces (Türk Silahlı Kuvetleri) on August 20, 2014 and remained in this post until he was replaced by General Tahir Bekiroğlu on August 20 August 2015. Since August 11, 2015 he has been Commander-in-Chief of the Aegean Army (Ege Ordusu) at the Izmir headquarters and thus successor to General Galip Mendi .

Recep is married and has a son and a daughter.

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