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Turkish military officer and politician (1919–1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sadi Koçaş (1919–1998) was a Turkish military officer and politician. He was among the military figures who planned a military coup against the rule of the Democrat Party on 27 May 1960. Retired from the army in 1961 he became a member of the Republican People's Party. He briefly served as the deputy prime minister in the cabinet led by Nihat Erim immediately after another military coup in 1971.
Sadi Koçaş | |
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Birth name | Mehmet Sadi |
Born | 1919 Karaman, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 12 January 1998 (aged 78–79) Istanbul, Turkey |
Buried | Zincirlikuyu cemetery, Istanbul |
Allegiance | Turkey |
Service/ | Turkish Land Forces |
Rank | Colonel |
Alma mater | Turkish Military Academy |
Children | 2 |
Other work | Deputy Prime Minister (1971) |
He was born in Karaman, Ottoman Empire, in 1919.[1] His family later settled in Istanbul.[2] He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy as an artillery officer in 1940.[1] He continued his education and became a staff officer in 1950.[1] Then he was educated at the School of Land/Air Warfare in the United Kingdom between 1952 and 1953.[3]
Following his graduation Koçaş worked in the Turkish Army and in the Ministry of Defense.[1] He was a military attaché in Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, between 1954 and 1956.[3] He was first involved in the secret activities in November 1954 to carry out a military coup against the government led by Prime Minister Adnan Menderes.[4] During this period Koçaş was a major.[4] In 1957 he formed another secret group of the military officers in Ankara against the government.[5] In February 1959 he managed to get support from Cemal Gürsel, commander of land forces, to implement the planned coup.[5] Shortly after these activities Koçaş was sent to London as a military attaché which he held until 1961.[3] He retired from the army with the rank of colonel in 1961.[3]
Cemal Gürsel, leader of the 1960 military coup and President of Turkey, appointed Koçaş as a senator in 1962.[6] He served at the Senate until his resignation in 1969.[1] Then he joined the Republican People's Party and was elected as a deputy from Konya.[3] On 26 March 1971 he was appointed deputy prime minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Nihat Erim which had been formed shortly after the Turkish military memorandum on 12 March.[3][7] Koçaş's ministerial portfolio included political and administrative affairs.[7][8] Koçaş and eleven other cabinet members resigned from their posts on 3 December 1971.[3] Following this incident he retired from politics.[1]
Koçaş was married and had two daughters.[1] He died in Istanbul on 12 January 1998 and was buried in the Zincirlikuyu cemetery next day.[9]
Koçaş is the author of several non-fiction books.[1] Two of his books were his memoirs which were published in 1977 and 1978.[10] In these books Koçaş reports the existence of an extremely secret service within the state apparatus which was allegedly led by Fuat Doğu, the undersecretary of Turkish National Intelligence Agency.[10] This claim was also shared by Prime Minister Nihat Erim, and they managed to remove Fuat Doğu from office.[10]
Koçaş also published a book on the history of Armenians and the relations between Armenians and Turks in 1990.[11]
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