Yener KarahanoÄŸlu

Yener Karahanoğlu (* 1946 in Erzurum, Erzurum Province ) is a former Turkish admiral, who was most recently 2005-2007 Commander in Chief of the Navy ( Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri ).

Life

After schooling Karahanoğlu entered the Naval Academy ( Deniz Harp Okulu ) and graduated in 1966 as a midshipman from. After he found uses in various naval units and eventually became an officer in 1976 and ship commander in the fleet command, before joining in 1978 as an officer listener into the Naval Academy ( Deniz Harp Akademisi ). After its completion, he became a staff officer and was then only messages and communications officer and first officer on the ship TCG Tinaztepe. After a subsequent use as commander of the ship TCG Yarhisar (P -113 ), he became an officer of the General Staff tasks and messages liaison officer of the High Command of the Navy, before he became first officer of the ship TCG Kılıçalipaşa. After he was operations officer in the department operation and training of the Fleet Command, he was operations officer in the control department of the High Command of the Navy, and then Commodore of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla ( muhrip Filotilla ).

In 1990, he was promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed as deputy head of the training department of the High Command of the Navy, and then to the commander of the landing force ( Çıkarma Gemileri Komutanlığı ). 1994 Karahanoğlu was promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed in the High Command of the Navy to the head of the logistics department, before he then Deputy Supreme Commander of the Fleet Command.

After he was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1998, he assumed the position of Head of the monitoring and evaluation department of the High Command of the Navy, and then the Chief of Staff of the Naval Command South ( Güney Deniz Saha Komutanlığı ) in Izmir, to the amphibious vehicle associations in Foça, the maintenance and engineering command Izmir, the Regional Command and the Mediterranean naval bases İskenderun and Aksaz belong.

After promotion to Admiral Karahanoğlu was posted on August 30, 2003 Supreme Commander of the Fleet Command ( donanma Komutanlığı ), which includes among others, the minelayer, U - boat, storm boot, mine countermeasures vessel, logistic support and naval aviation associations.

Nearly two years later, he was finally in place of Özden Örnek on 26 August 2005 Commander in Chief of the Navy. He continued in this function also almost two years until his dismissal on 24 August 2007 Metin Ataç who had previously followed him as Commander in Chief of the Fleet Command.