İsmail Hakkı Karadayı (25 April 1932 – 26 May 2020) was a Turkish general, who became the 35th Commander of the

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on 30 August 1993. He served between 1994 and 1998 as the 22nd

Chief of the Turkish General Staff The Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces () is the chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces (). He is appointed by the President of Turkey, who is the commander-in-chief. The position dates to the period of the ...

for a four-year term and was succeeded by General Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu.Ismail Hakkı Karadayi biography
Turkish Armed Forces official website On 13 April 2018, a Turkish court sentenced him to life imprisonment for his role in the

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. During his General Staff, the Turkish army carried out Operation Steel,

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and

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against the PKK in Northern Iraq.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karadayi, Ismail Hakki 1932 births 2020 deaths People from Çankırı Turkish Army generals Turkish Military Academy alumni Army War College (Turkey) alumni Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces Chiefs of the Turkish General Staff