Çetin Doğan

Çetin Doğan (born 15 May 1940, Maçka[1]) is a retired Turkish general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (17 August 2001 – 20 August 2003).

Doğan graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1960.[2]

In 2007 Doğan was appointed head of the Board of Trustees of Ahmet Yesevi University by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. He was replaced in March 2008 by new President Abdullah Gül.[3]

Doğan has written columns for the Aydınlık newspaper since May 2011,[4][5] and published two books.[6]

Operation Sledgehammer

In 2012 he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his alleged involvement in the 2003 "Sledgehammer" coup plan;[7] Doğan is said to have been the leader of the group that planned the coup.[8][9] He was later acquitted in 2015.[10] He is also charged in the case of the 1997 military memorandum.[11]

Professor Dani Rodrik (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.[12][13]

Books
  • Ateşi ve İhaneti Gördük, Kastaş Yayınları 2010. ISBN 9789752821408
  • İddianamem: Balyoz ve Gerçekler, Destek Yayınları 2011. ISBN 9786054455348

References
  1. kimkimdir.gen.tr, Orgeneral Çetin Doğan (1940 - .... )
  2. Umar, Leyla (25 March 2003). "Biz asla Irak'a savaş açmayız". Vatan. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  3. Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, The Sledgehammer Coup Plan and the Case of Çetin Doğan
  4. Çetin Doğan, Aydınlık, 12 May 2011, Tarih yazılırken (1) - (TAMAMI)
  5. Aydınlık, Çetin Doğan
  6. Çetin Doğan, Aydınlık, 20 July 2011, ÇETİN DOĞAN: ATEŞİ VE İHANETİ GÖRDÜK
  7. Hürriyet Daily News, 21 September 2012, Court hits ex-top soldiers hard; accessed on 22 September 2012
  8. Hürriyet Daily News, 9 January 2013, Turkish Army denies having coup documents
  9. Today's Zaman, 4 May 2012, European human rights court says coup suspect Doğan's arrest legal
  10. Hürriyet Daily News, 31 March 2015,
  11. Hürriyet Daily News, 14 June 2013, 37 suspects released in Feb 28 coup probe
  12. Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, Foreign Policy, 6 April 2010, How Turkey Manufactured a Coup Plot
  13. Pinar Doğan and Dani Rodrik, The New Republic, 24 May 2010, Turkey’s Other Dirty War
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