Cihangir Akşit
 Emin Cihangir Akşit (born July 16 1953) is the current Director of the NATO Standardization Agency (NSA). Akşit had a forty-year military service where he earned seventeen badges before retiring in 2008 as a major general. He is known for his establishment of total quality management and change management that modernized the Turkish Armed Forces. Akşit is also a noted author having wrote three historical fiction novels as well as articles for several military magazines and journals.