Decree Law No. 669 – Turkish Armed Forces

Decree Law No. 669, discharged 1,389 military personnel who had some relation, connection or contact with FETÖ, which was found to threaten national security, from the Turkish Armed Forces. Among them were chief military assistant to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Colonel Ali Yazıcı, Chief of General Staff General Hulusi Akar’s aide Infantry Liutenant Colonel Levent Türkkan, his key advisor Colonel Orhan Yıkılkan, his former executive assistant Staff Colonel Ramazan Gözel and National Defense Minister Fikri Işık’s executive assistant Colonel Tevfik Gök.

The decree law also amended the structure of the Supreme Military Council (YAŞ). It assigned the prime minister, chief of the General Staff, deputy prime ministers, justice minister, foreign minister, interior minister and national defense minister and commanders of forces as YAŞ members.