Çetin Doğan (born 15 May 1940,
Maçka
Maçka (, the "club"; Laz language, Laz: მაჩხა ''Maçxa'') is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Trabzon Province, Turkey. Its area is 925 km2, and its population is 24,709 (2022). The name derives from the medieval ...
) is a Turkish military officer. He was
Commander of the First Army of Turkey (17 August 2001 – 20 August 2003).
Doğan graduated from the
Turkish Military Academy
The Turkish Military Academy () or as it is known historically and popularly Harbiye is a four-year co-educational military academy and part of the National Defense University (Turkey), National Defence University. It is located in the cent ...
in 1960.
In 2007, Doğan was appointed head of the Board of Trustees of
Ahmet Yesevi University by President
Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Ahmet Necdet Sezer (; born 13 September 1941) is a Turkish statesman and judge who served as the tenth president of Turkey from 2000 to 2007. Previously, he was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from January 1998 to May 2000. The ...
. He was replaced in March 2008 by new President
Abdullah Gül
Abdullah Gül (; ; born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently s ...
.
Doğan has written columns for the ''
Aydınlık
''Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (''Vatan Partisi''). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011.
Histo ...
'' 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
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of ...
(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, '']The New Republic
''The New Republic'' (often abbreviated as ''TNR'') is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts from a left-wing perspective. It publishes ten print magazines a year and a daily online platform. ''The New Y ...
'', 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