Akın Öztürk

Akın Öztürk

Akın Öztürk (born February 21, 1952 in Gümüşhane ) is a former Turkish officer, pilot and attaché, most recently in the rank of general . Among other things, he was supreme commander of the air force between 2013 and 2015 . Since 2015 he has been a member of the Supreme Military Council in Turkey. After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 , he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on June 20, 2019 .

Life

Officer and staff officer

Öztürk comes from the Anatolian provincial capital Gümüşhane in the province of the same name . After attending school in Erzincan in the east of the country, he joined the Turkish Air Force ( Hava Kuvetleri ) in 1970 and completed an officer training at the Air Force Academy ( Hava Harp Okulu ), which he graduated as a lieutenant in 1973 .

Then in 1975 an aviation training on F-100 took place at the flight school ( Uçuş Okulu ), which was followed by various assignments as an officer and pilot on F-100 and F-4 in the air force until 1985 . In 1985 he began his training as a staff officer at Air War College ( Hava Harp Akademisi ), which he finished in 1987. He was then a pilot at the 3rd Air Force Base, the flight instructor in the 131st AEW & C training squadron in Konya , training officer in the 131st AEW & C training squadron , operations training officer in the 141st multipurpose squadron in Akıncı . In this unit he was then an operations officer and then a commodore , before he was employed as a planning officer in the training department of the High Command of the Air Force.

After serving as head of division for flight training in the training department of the High Command of the Air Force, Öztürk was under the ambassadors Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Namık Tan Air Force Attaché at the Turkish Embassy Tel-Aviv in Israel (1996-1998) and then operations officer of the 6th Air Force Base in Bandırma .

Promotion to general

After his promotion to Brigadier General (Tuğgeneral) in 2000 Öztürk was first head of the training department in the High Command of the Air Force and in 2002 commander of the 9th Air Force Base (Ana Jet Üs Komutanlığı) in Balıkesir . In 2004 he was promoted to major general (Tümgeneral) and appointed commander of the 2nd Air Supply and Maintenance Center (2nd Hava İkmal Bakım Merkezi) in Kayseri , before he became head of the Intelligence Department in the High Command of the Air Force.

After Öztürk was promoted to lieutenant general (co- general ) in 2009, he became the commanding general of the 2nd Tactical Air Force Command responsible for Eastern Turkey (2nd Hava Kuvveti Komutanlığı) with headquarters in Diyarbakir and then acted as commanding general from 2011 to August 30, 2013 of the Air Force Training Command ( Hava Eğitim Komutanlığı ) in Izmir.

Most recently, on August 22, 2013, he succeeded General Mehmet Erten as Supreme Commander of the Air Force ( Türk Hava Kuvetleri ). He held this post until August 14, 2015 and was then replaced by General Abidin Ünal . As a pilot, he completed around 5,800 flight hours; he flew F-16s , Eurofighters and other types of aircraft.

Since 2015 he has been a member of the Supreme Military Council in Turkey ( Yüksek Askerî Şûra ).

His marriage to Tülay Öztürk had two children.

Coup attempt in 2016

Öztürk was in on 18 July 2016 remand taken. A senior government official accuses him of being the head of the attempted coup on July 15-16, 2016. Öztürk denies his involvement in the attempted coup. The news agency Anadolu Ajansı previously distributed news that Öztürk had confessed to his role in the planning of the coup attempt was corrected by the news agency the next day. The trial against him and 220 other defendants began on May 22, 2017. The allegation is: murder of 250 people, membership in a terrorist organization and violation of the constitution. On June 20, 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Web links

• Entry in Kim Kimdir? (Who is who?)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Coup attempt in Turkey: Lifelong for 17 ex-top military. Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Akın Öztürk kimdir? . milliyet.com.tr, July 16, 2016.
3. ↑ Eski Hava Kuvvetleri Komutanı Akın Öztürk tutuklandı In: NTV (Turkey) , July 18, 2016
4. ↑ Agency corrects report: Ex-Air Force chief Öztürk is said to have denied involvement in the coup. In: Spiegel Online . July 18, 2016, accessed July 19, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Legal proceedings in Ankara: Trial begins with the gauntlet of alleged Turkey coup plotters , Stern (with video) from May 22, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2017
6. ^ Justice under Erdogan - Turkey: Alleged masterminds of the coup in court , Deutsche Welle of May 22, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2017
7. ↑ tagesschau.de: Coup attempt in Turkey: Lifelong for 17 ex-top military. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .