Çetin Doğan

Çetin Doğan (born 15 May 1940, Maçka[1]) is a retired Turkish general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (17 August 2001 - 20 August 2003).

Doğan graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1960.[2]

In 2007 Doğan was appointed head of the Board of Trustees of Ahmet Yesevi University by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. He was replaced in March 2008 by new President Abdullah Gül.[3]

Doğan has written columns for the Aydınlık newspaper since May 2011,[4][5] and published two books.[6]

Operation Sledgehammer

In 2012 he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his alleged involvement in the 2003 "Sledgehammer" coup plan;[7] Doğan is said to have been the leader of the group that planned the coup.[8][9] He was later acquitted in 2015.[10] He is also charged in the case of the 1997 military memorandum.[11]

Professor Dani Rodrik (Doğan's son-in-law) has written that the Sledgehammer evidence against Doğan was fabricated, citing various anachronisms and errors in the key coup plan document.[12][13]

Books

  • Ateşi ve İhaneti Gördük, Kastaş Yayınları 2010. ISBN 9789752821408
  • İddianamem: Balyoz ve Gerçekler, Destek Yayınları 2011. ISBN 9786054455348

References

  1. ↑ kimkimdir.gen.tr, Orgeneral Çetin Doğan (1940 - .... )
  2. ↑ Umar, Leyla (25 March 2003). "Biz asla Irak'a savaş açmayız". Vatan. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, The Sledgehammer Coup Plan and the Case of Çetin Doğan
  4. ↑ Çetin Doğan, Aydınlık, 12 May 2011, Tarih yazılırken (1) - (TAMAMI)
  5. ↑ Aydınlık, Çetin Doğan
  6. ↑ Çetin Doğan, Aydınlık, 20 July 2011, ÇETİN DOĞAN: ATEŞİ VE İHANETİ GÖRDÜK
  7. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News, 21 September 2012, Court hits ex-top soldiers hard; accessed on 22 September 2012
  8. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News, 9 January 2013, Turkish Army denies having coup documents
  9. ↑ Today's Zaman, 4 May 2012, European human rights court says coup suspect Doğan's arrest legal
  10. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News, 31 March 2015,
  11. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News, 14 June 2013, 37 suspects released in Feb 28 coup probe
  12. ↑ Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, Foreign Policy, 6 April 2010, How Turkey Manufactured a Coup Plot
  13. ↑ Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, The New Republic, 24 May 2010, Turkey’s Other Dirty War
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