Career
He was Secretary-General of the National Security Council from 2001 to 2003. He was a defendant in the Ergenekon trials. In August 2013 he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
At a 2007 meeting of the Atatürkist Thought Association he said that Turkey should leave North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1960 and the Army War College (Kara Harp Akademisi) in 1973.
