Dogan Gureş

Doğan Güreş (born February 15, 1926 in Adana ; † October 13, 2014 in Ankara ) was a Turkish general who was last chief of the general staff (Genelkurmay Başkanı) of the Turkish armed forces (Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri) from 1990 to 1994 .

Life

After visiting the Kuleli cadet school , Güreş entered the military school ( Harp Okulu ) in 1945 , which he graduated from in 1947 as a lieutenant in the transport force. Then he attended the military transport school (Ulaştırma Sınıf Okulu) and was after its completion from 1949 to 1963 platoon leader and company commander in various military units. In 1963 he entered the military academy ( Harp Akademisi ) as an officer auditor and, after its completion in 1965, he was employed as an officer and staff officer in several units.

In 1973 Güreş was promoted to brigadier general and appointed head of the army office before he then worked in the logistics department of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO in Mons . Afterwards he was deputy chief of the armed forces office as well as commander of the armaments school and commander of a training brigade.

After his promotion to major general in 1977, he kept the post of commander of the armaments school and at the same time became commander of the training division. In 1981 he was promoted to lieutenant general and head of the personnel department in the General Staff of Turkey , before he became Commanding General of III. Corps was.

After he was promoted to general in 1985, he first became commander of the military academy and was then commander in chief of the 1st Army from 1987 to 1989 as the successor to General Recep Orhan Ergun . On August 23, 1989 Güreş succeeded General Kemal Yamak as Commander in Chief of the Land Forces (Türk Kara Kuvetleri) .

His last position was on December 6, 1990, as the successor to General Necip Torumtay, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. It was contrary to the usual pension scheme to an extension of the term of office by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller , before he in on 30 August 1994 at his own request retirement came.

In the elections of December 24, 1995 , Güreş was elected as a candidate for the Right Path Party ( Doğru Yol Partisi ), which was led by Çiller, as a member of the Grand National Assembly and belonged to it after his re-election in the parliamentary elections on April 18, 1999 until November 3 2002 on.

Web links

• Entry in Kim Kimdir? (Who is who?) (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex Chief of Staff Doğan Güreş dies at 88 , In: Daily Sabah of October 14, 2014, accessed on November 18, 2014 (English)