Necdet Özel

Jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was acquitted on Nov. 30 of “insulting a public official” over his remarks about former Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

It was a short while before the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. Foreign Minister İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil visited Tehran after receiving an invitation from Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, for a meeting which he later recounted:

The July 2016 coup attempt of Fethullah Gülen's followers took decades of systematic planning, which involved the infiltration of the Turkish Armed Forces from bottom to top. By the time of the coup attempt, Gülen's followers occupied almost half of the general and admiral positions. 

The work of the commission set up to investigate Turkey's July 15, 2016 coup attempt reveals that state institutions considered the Gülen brotherhood a threat in the past and had made warnings.

Former Chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Özel was informed on a potential coup attempt in 2015, but no action was taken although Özel had ordered an investigation to be carried out, according to a main opposition report that investigated the July 2016 coup attempt, daily Cumhuriyet reported June 13.

Former Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel, who served between 2011 and 2015, has denied accusations that he had "escaped" a parliamentary commission probing the July 15 coup attempt, adding that he demanded deputies' questions in advance so that he could provide more solid information.

Political parties at the Turkish Parliament have criticized former Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel's decision to not give a verbal testimony at the parliamentary commission investigating the failed July 15 coup attempt. 

A parliamentary commission on Turkey's thwarted July 15 military coup attempt is set to hear the opinions of prominent figures including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's brother-in-law, Ziya İlgen, from whom Erdoğan said he first learned about the coup attempt. 

Turkey?s frontline role in the United States-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as the ongoing battle against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), has increased Turkey?s security needs, the country?s new top commander has said, calling for a marshalling of all resources at hand.

The Turkish prime minister?s wife, Sare Davuto?lu, has delivered the baby of a soldier killed in a July 23 attack by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists on the Syrian border. 

Sare Davuto?lu visited Seher Nane, wife of the fallen soldier, who was eight months pregnant, along with Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Chief of Staff Necdet Özel two weeks ago.