About Necdet Üruğ
Necdet Üruğ, 100, Turkish military officer, chief of the General Staff (1983–1987), commander of the First Army (1978–1981) and Land Forces (1983), complications from COVID-19.
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|Mustafa Necdet Üruğ (19 February 1921 – 18 April 2021) was a Turkish general and the nephew of Faruk Gürler.
Biography
He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1978 – 1981) during the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. After the coup, he was Commander of the Turkish Army (1983), and Chief of the General Staff of Turkey (1983 – 1987), as well as Secretary-General of the Presidential Council (from 1983).
Üruğ died from complications of COVID-19 in Istanbul on 18 April 2021, at the age of 100, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.
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