Hasan Iğsız (born 1946, Istanbul, Turkey) is a retired General in the

Turkish Army The Turkish Land Forces () is the main branch of the Turkish Armed Forces responsible for Army, land-based military operations. The army was formed on November 8, 1920, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Significant campaigns since the ...

. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey from 2009 to 2010. He was formerly a defendant in the Internet Memorandum trial, where he was tried together with Turkey's former Chief of Staff, İlker Başbuğ. Later this trial was merged into the controversial

Ergenekon trials The Ergenekon trials or the Ergenekon conspiracy, were a series of high-profile trials which took place in 2008–2016 in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Erge ...

. Iğsız was subsequently acquitted in 2016. The Ergenekon trials targeted a very heterogeneous group of people, merged different trials into one, and mobilized conspiracies tainted with fabricated evidence in the struggle to dominate Turkey's institutions.

Career

Iğsız 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 1966 and from the

Turkish Military College The Army War Institute (), formerly Army War Academy (), is an academic institution of the National Defence University. It is sometimes referred to in English as the ''Turkish Military College''. Other Military Colleges It must not be confused wi ...

in 1976. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1993 and Major-General in 1997. He was promoted to General and appointed Commander of the 2nd Army in 2006 (30 August 2006 – 30 August 2008), and Deputy Chief of the General Staff ( tr) in 2008. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey from 2009 to 2010. Iğsız was due to be appointed Commander of the Turkish Land Forces, but his appointment was blocked by launching the Internet Memorandum investigation, claiming that he was instrumental in launching websites to incite a military coup. Launched on the day of the military council deliberations with the President and the Prime Minister, the investigation was deployed to dismiss his appointment to the Land Forces.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Igsiz, Hasan 1946 births Military personnel from Istanbul Turkish Military Academy alumni Army War College (Turkey) alumni Turkish Army generals Living people Commanders of the Second Army of Turkey