Çetin Doğan (born 15 May 1940,

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) is a retired

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general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (17 August 2001 – 20 August 2003). Doğan graduated from the

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in 1960. In 2007 Doğan was appointed head of the Board of Trustees of

Ahmet Yesevi University Ahmet Yesevi University ( kk, Ахмет Ясауи университеті, ''Ahmet Iasaýı ýnıversıteti''; tr, Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi) is a university in the city of Turkistan in Kazakhstan, named for the twelfth-century Sufi poet ...

by President

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. He was replaced in March 2008 by new President

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. Doğan has written columns for the '' Aydınlık'' newspaper since May 2011, and published two books.

Operation Sledgehammer

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

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(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.Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, ''

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'', 24 May 2010
Turkey’s Other Dirty War
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Books

* ''Ateşi ve İhaneti Gördük'', Kastaş Yayınları 2010. * ''İddianamem: Balyoz ve Gerçekler'', Destek Yayınları 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dogan, Cetin 1940 births Living people Turkish Army generals People from Maçka Turkish Military Academy alumni