Decree Law No. 668 – Turkish Armed Forces

The second decree law issued concerns the measures to be taken as part of the state of emergency. It decreed that military personnel who were discharged from the Turkish Armed Forces are to be deprived of their military rank and civil service regardless of prison sentence and they cannot be accepted into the Turkish Armed Forces again.

Decree Law No. 668, which was enacted on July 27, published the names of personnel discharged from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Accordingly, 1,684 soldiers with some relation, connection or contact with FETÖ, which was found to threaten national security, including 87 generals, 726 commissioned officers and 256 noncommissioned officers in the Land Forces Command; 32 admirals, 59 commissioned officers and 63 noncommissioned officers in the Naval Forces Command; and 30 generals, 314 commissioned officers, 117 noncommissioned officers in the Air Force Command were discharged. Among them were former Air Force Commander Akın Öztürk and 2nd Army Commander Adem Huduti.