Memduh Tağmaç [SEP] place of birth
Memduh Tağmaç
Memduh Tağmaç (1904, Erzurum - 30 March 1978) was a Turkish general. He was the Chief of the General Staff of Turkey during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, and previously Commander of the Turkish Army (1968 - 1969) and Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1966 - 1968).
of Turkification, and the subversion of Communism.
Incidents Coups of 1971 and 1980.
After the military coup in 1960, yet another plot was exposed by National Intelligence Organization (MİT) agent Mahir Kaynak, who in early 1971 informed both Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Memduh Tağmaç and also the fiercely anti-communist Commander of the First Army based in İstanbul, General Faik Türün, who was a veteran of Korean War and was decorated personally by General Douglas MacArthur there. The information conveyed to them was that a number