Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu

Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu (born December 1934 in Bozöyük , Bilecik Province ) is a former Turkish general who was last chief of the General Staff ( Genelkurmay Başkanı ) between 1998 and 2002 .

Life

Training as an artillery and staff officer

After schooling completed Kivrikoglu the Military School ( Harp Okulu ), which he 1955 as officer of artillery completed. He then attended the artillery school until 1957 and then found use in various artillery units and was most recently commander of an artillery battery . Between 1965 and 1967 he graduated from the Military Academy ( Harp Akademisi ) and was then a staff officer in the 9th Infantry Division until 1970 .

After the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg-Nienstedten , Kıvrıkoğlu became a planning officer at the headquarters of the Allied Forces of NATO in Southern Europe ( AFSOUTH ) in Naples in 1970 , before he was a lecturer at the military academy between 1972 and 1973. In the following two years he was section chief in the general staff and in the personnel department of the land forces.

In 1975, Kıvrıkoğlu was appointed Director of Defense Research in the Directorate for General Planning and Policy of Land Forces. He then acted from 1978 to 1980 as the commander of the study department of the military academy.

Promotion to general and chief of the general staff

After attending the NATO Defense College in Rome , he was promoted to brigadier general in 1980 and was then employed at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Forces in Europe ( SHAPE ) in Mons until 1983 , before he returned to command of the III. and then the XI. Brigade was.

In 1984 he was promoted to major general . As such, he was Chief of Staff of the Allied Land Forces in Southeastern Europe ( LANDSOUTHEAST ) in Izmir between 1984 and 1986 and then from 1986 to 1988 commander of the 9th Infantry Division in Sarıkamış .

After Kıvrıkoğlu was promoted to lieutenant general in 1988 , he was head of personnel administration at the Chief of Staff until 1990 and then commanding general of the V Army Corps from 1990 to 1993  , before being briefly state secretary in the Ministry of National Defense in 1993 .

In 1993 he was finally promoted to general. As such, he was first Commander-in-Chief of LANDSOUTHEAST in Izmir from 1993 to 1996 and then, as the successor to General Hikmet Köksal, Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army until 1997 . Thereupon he was again as the successor to General Hikmet Köksal between August 28, 1997 and August 27, 1998 Commander in Chief of the Land Forces ( Türk Kara Kuvetleri ), while General Atilla Ateş was his successor as Commander in Chief of the 1st Army. As commander-in-chief of the land forces, he was among the signatories of General İsmail Hakkı Karadayı (Chief of the Great General Staff ), General Admiral Salim Dervişoğlu (Commander of the Navy ), General Ilhan Kilic (Commander of the Air Force ) and General Fikret Boztepe (General Commander of the Gendarmerie ) to the then Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz , in whom the leading generals presented the role of the military in Turkey.

On August 30, 1998, General Kıvrıkoğlu succeeded General İsmail Hakkı Karadayı as Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces. His own successor as commander-in-chief of the land forces was again General Atilla Ateş. In 2002 there was a conflict with France after an exhibition by the organization Reporters Without Borders , which then described him as an enemy of press freedom .

He held the post of Chief of Staff on August 28, 2002 until he was replaced by General Hilmi Özkök , who had succeeded General Ateş as Commander in Chief of the Land Forces on August 25, 2000.

In the course of his long military career, General Kıvrıkoğlu was honored and received, among other things, the Medal of Merit of the Armed Forces, the Legion of Merit and the Star of Romania .

Kıvrıkoğlu was a nephew of Major General Mustafa Kıvrıkoğlu (1915-2001) and a cousin of his son General Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu , who was Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army between 2010 and 2011 and has also been Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces since August 4, 2011.

Web links

• Entry in Kim Kimdir? (Who is who?)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wording of the memorandum of the five highest-ranking generals of the Turkish army to Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz ( memento of the original from August 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (1998)  
2. ^ Changing of the guard in the Turkish military. Hüseyin Kivrikoglu becomes chief of staff . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 31, 1998
3. ↑ Hüseyin Kivrikoglu as the enemy of press freedom (Institute for Social Threefolding, May 8, 2002)