Doğan Güreş

Doğan Güreş (15 February 1926 – 14 October 2014) was a Turkish general and True Path Party politician.

Education

After he graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1945, Güreş kept on studying at the Turkish Military Academy and accomplished a degree in 1947. Following, he received a degree from the School of Transportation in 1949. He was engaged in several posts in the Turkish Land Forces and in 1965 he also graduated from the Army Staff College.

Military career

He was Chief of the General Staff of Turkey from 1990 to 1994, having been Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1987 - 1989) and Commander of the Turkish Army (1989 - 1990). As Necip Torumtay resigned from his post as Chief of General Staff, Gürsel was appointed in his stead the next day. In 1992 he proclaimed self-confidently that "Turkey is a military state". The 1991 Yeşilova incident took place under his tenure as Chief of the General Staff, as did the 1992 Operation Northern Iraq and the 26 July 1994 bombing of North Iraq.

The Kurdish question

Doğan Güreş is a journalist Fikret Bila from the first operation carried out by Turkey against PKK targets in northern Iraq during his tenure as Chief of General Staff, from the ''Çekiç Güç'', from the planes violating the border and from the "shoot" orders he gave to Gendarmerie Asayish Commander Lieutenant General Necati Özgen, that he did not consult with then-President Turgut Özal, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel, that he did not meet at the MGK and that he had an environment in which he could do whatever he wanted at that timein an interview with.

Regarding the uprisings against the security forces in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, Doğan Güreş said in an interview he gave to the Milliyet newspaper on September 25, 26, following the National Security Council meeting held on September 1992, that there was no Kurdish problem, that there was a southeastern problem and that the period of total struggle began with the cooperation of the government of the time.

Political career

After his retirement as in 1994, he was elected to parliament for the True Path Party in the 1995 parliamentary elections (representing Kilis), and re-elected in 1999, serving until November 2002. He was also True Path's presidential candidate in the 2000 Turkish presidential election.

Doğan Güreş died in Ankara at the Gülhane Military Medical Academy where he was treated, on 14 October 2014.

See also

* Susurluk scandal

References

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1926 births
2014 deaths
Turkish Army generals
Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff
Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces
Democrat Party (Turkey, current) politicians
Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 20th Parliament of Turkey
People from Kilis