List of Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces
This list includes Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces (Turkish: Türk Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı), who were, in their time of service, nominal heads of the Turkish Land Forces (or Turkish Army).

List of Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces

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Table Section Text: This list includes Commanders of the Turkish Land Forces (Turkish: Türk Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı), who were, in their time of service, nominal heads of the Turkish Land Forces (or Turkish Army).

No.	Commander	Picture	Took office	Left office

1	General Nuri Yamut	1 July 1949	5 June 1950

2	General Kurtcebe Noyan	6 June 1950	7 May 1951

3	General Şükrü Kanatlı	28 December 1951	15 January 1954

4	General Ahmet Nurettin Baransel	6 April 1954	28 May 1954

5	General Abdülkadir Seven	10 July 1954	25 April 1955

6	General İsmail Hakkı Tunaboylu	13 September 1955	6 June 1956

7	General Ahmet Nurettin Aknoz	25 June 1956	16 September 1957

8	General İbrahim Necati Tacan	30 November 1957	28 July 1958

9	General Mustafa Rüştü Erdelhun	1 August 1958	21 August 1958

10	General Cemal Gürsel	21 August 1958	2 June 1960

11	General Cevdet Sunay	-	3 June 1960	2 August 1960

12	General Mehmet Muzaffer Alankuş	4 August 1960	6 January 1961

13	Lieutenant general Celal Alkoç	6 March 1961	26 June 1961

14	General Muhittin Önür	31 August 1961	23 February 1962

15	General Mehmet Ali Keskiner	23 February 1962	28 August 1964

16	General Cemal Tural	28 August 1964	15 March 1966

17	General Ahmet Refik Yılmaz	21 March 1966	23 August 1968

18	General Memduh Tağmaç	23 August 1968	16 March 1969

19	General Fikret Esen	18 March 1969	28 August 1969

20	General Nazmi Karakoç	28 August 1969	28 August 1970

21	General Faruk Gürler	28 August 1970	28 August 1972

22	General Semih Sancar	28 August 1972	7 March 1973

23	General Eşref Akıncı	7 March 1973	1 April 1976

24	General Namık Kemal Ersun	29 March 1976	1 June 1977

25	General Semih Sancar	1 June 1977	4 September 1977

26	General Kenan Evren	-	5 September 1977	6 March 1978

27	General Nurettin Ersin	9 March 1978	1 July 1983

28	General Necdet Üruğ	1 July 1983	6 December 1983

29	General Ali Haydar Saltık	6 December 1983	12 August 1985

30	General Necdet Öztorun	12 August 1985	2 July 1987

31	General Necip Torumtay	2 July 1987	24 July 1987

32	General Kemal Yamak	24 July 1987	23 August 1989

33	General Doğan Güreş	23 August 1989	6 December 1990

34	General Muhittin Fisunoğlu	1 January 1991	30 August 1993

35	General İsmail Hakkı Karadayı	30 August 1993	30 August 1994

36	General Mehmet Hikmet Bayar	30 August 1994	27 August 1996

37	General Hikmet Köksal	27 August 1996	28 August 1997

38	General Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu	28 August 1997	27 August 1998

39	General Atilla Ateş	27 August 1998	25 August 2000

40	General Hilmi Özkök	27 August 2000	29 August 2002

41	General Aytaç Yalman	27 August 2002	29 August 2004

42	General Yaşar Büyükanıt	-	29 August 2004	25 August 2006

43	General İlker Başbuğ	-	25 August 2006	27 August 2008

44	General Işık Koşaner	27 August 2008	27 August 2010

45	General Erdal Ceylanoğlu	27 August 2010	29 July 2011

46	General Necdet Özel	-	29 July 2011	4 August 2011

47	General Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu	4 August 2011	23 August 2013

48	General Hulusi Akar	-	23 August 2013	17 August 2015

49	General Salih Zeki Çolak	-	17 August 2015	23 August 2017

50	General Yaşar Güler	-	23 August 2017	10 July 2018

51	General Ümit Dündar	-	10 July 2018	Incumbent

Sentence(s)

Semih Sancar was previously Commander of the Turkish Land Forces from 1972 to 1973.

final_sentence: Semih Sancar was previously Commander of the Turkish Land Forces from 1972 to 1973.