Selahattin Çetiner | |
Birth Date: | 1922 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Lapseki, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey |
Nationality: | Turkish |
Occupation: | Military officer |
Education: | Turkish Military Academy |
Party: | Independent |
Office: | Minister of the Interior |
Term Start: | 20 September 1980 |
Term End: | 13 December 1983 |
Successor: | Ali Tanrıyar |
Spouse: | Meral |
Selahattin Çetiner (1 July 1922 – 4 June 2023) was a Turkish politician and retired lieutenant general in the Turkish Armed Forces. An independent, he served as Minister of the Interior from 1980 to 1983 following the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.[1] [2]
Çetiner became ill at his home in the Koyunbaba neighborhood of Bodrum.[1] He was taken to a private hospital in Bodrum, Muğla Province, where he died from organ failure on 4 June 2023 at the age of 100.[1] Çetiner was survived by his wife, Meral, daughter, Ümit Dinçel, and son, Atıf Çetiner.[2] His funeral was held with military honors at the Büyük Selimiye Mosque in Istanbul with burial in the city's Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.[1]