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]