| Aytaç Yalman | |
| Birth Date: | 29 July 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Death Place: | Üsküdar, Turkey |
| Death Cause: | COVID-19 |
| Office1: | General Commander of the Gendarmerie of Turkey |
| Term Start1: | 24 August 2000 |
| Term End1: | 27 August 2002 |
| Predecessor1: | Rasim Betir |
| Successor1: | Şener Eruygur |
| Office2: | Commander of the Turkish Army |
| Term Start2: | 27 August 2002 |
| Term End2: | 29 August 2004 |
| Predecessor2: | Hilmi Özkök |
| Successor2: | Yaşar Büyükanıt |
| Spouse: | Belma Yalman |
| Children: | 2 |
| Allegiance: | Turkey |
| Branch: | Turkish Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1961–2004 |
| Unit: | Artillery |
Aytaç Yalman (29 July 1940 – 15 March 2020) was a Turkish general.
He was the Commander of the Turkish Army (2002–2004) and previously General Commander of the Gendarmerie of Turkey (2000–2002). He was commissioned in an Artillery unit fielding M114 155 mm howitzers, and for the rest of his career below the rank of Colonel, he served in and commanded MGR-1 Honest John Ballistic Missile units. He served as a Gun Position Officer as well as a Fire Direction Officer in a Surface-to-Surface Tactical Ballistic Missile Regiment in the 1970s. Then he served in the Aegean Army and Turkish military forces in Northern Cyprus in the early 1980s. He later commanded an Infantry Division. In 1998, he was promoted to the rank of General and was appointed the Commander of the Second Army. In the same year, he represented Turkey at the Adana Agreement, which regulated the Turkey-Syria relations. Later on, he was appointed the Commander of the Gendarmerie General Command on 24 August 2000, and the Turkish Land Forces on 24 August 2002, respectively. He retired in 2004 due to the army's age limit.[1]
According to General Levent Ersöz, it was Yalman who informed Chief of the General Staff Hilmi Özkök of key military figures' membership of Ergenekon.[2] In 2012, Yalman talked about his role in preventing the "Sledgehammer" coup plan in 2003.[3]
In 2008, Yalman wrote the libretto for "Şehitler Oratoryosu" (Oratorio for the Martyred).[4]
Yalman died from complications of COVID-19 on 15 March 2020, aged 79,[5] three weeks after he had been in Iran, where the disease was prevalent.[6]