serviceyears branch death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor allegiance imagesize office birth_date term_start rank article_title term_end name
1945-1994 turkish army 14 october 2014 ankara , turkey necip torumtay kemal yamak kilis , turkey İsmail hakkı karadayı muhittin füsunoğlu turkey 200px chief the turkish army of the general staff of turkey commander of 15 february 1926 6 december 1990 23 august 1989 general doğan güreş
 30 august 1994 6 december 1990 doğan güreş
doğan güreş

doğan güreş -lrb- 15 february 1926 -- 14 october 2014 -rrb- was a turkish general and true path party politician .
he was chief of the general staff of turkey from 1990 to 1994 , having been commander of the first army of turkey -lrb- 1987 - 1989 -rrb- and commander of the turkish army -lrb- 1989 - 1990 -rrb- .
in 1992 he proclaimed self-confidently that `` turkey is a military state '' .
after his retirement in 1994 he was elected to parliament for the true path party in the 1995 parliamentary elections -lrb- representing kilis -rrb- , and re-elected in 1999 , serving until november 2002 .
he was also true path 's presidential candidate in the turkish presidential election , 2000 .
the 1991 yeşilova incident took place under his tenure as chief of the general staff , as did the 1992 operation northern iraq and the 26 july 1994 bombing of north iraq .
doğan güreş died in the gata hospital in ankara on 14 october 2014 .
