İsmail Hakkı Karadayı (25 April 1932 – 26 May 2020) was a Turkish general, who became the 20th Commander of the

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on 30 August 1993. He served between 1994 and 1998 as the 22nd

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for a four-year term and was succeeded by General Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu.Ismail Hakkı Karadayi biography
Turkish Armed Forces official website On 13 April 2018, a Turkish court sentenced him to life imprisonment for his role in the

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. During his General Staff, the Turkish army carried out Operation Dawn and

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against the PKK in Northern Iraq.

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