Tunçer Kılınç Explained

Tunçer Kılınç
Birth Date:25 April 1938
Birth Place:Sarıkamış
Office:Secretary-General of the National Security Council
Term Start:26 August 2001
Term End:26 August 2003
Predecessor:Cumhur Asparuk
Successor:Şükrü Sarıışık
Allegiance:Turkey
Branch:Turkish Army
Serviceyears:1960–2003
Rank:General

Tunçer Kılınç (born 25 April 1938) is a retired Turkish general. He was Secretary-General of the National Security Council from 2001 to 2003.[1] He was a defendant in the Ergenekon trials;[2] [3] in August 2013 he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.[4]

At a 2007 meeting of the Atatürkist Thought Association he said that Turkey should leave NATO.[5]

He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1960 and the Army War College (Kara Harp Akademisi) in 1973.[6]

Notes and References

  1. mgk.gov.tr, Eski Genel Sekreterlerimiz
  2. [Today's Zaman]
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  6. Vatan, 7 January 2009, Tuncer Kılınç kimdir?