It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
This week a former chief of general staff, Ilker Basbug, was called in for interrogation over the affair.
Gen Dan Halutz as Chief of General Staff after the war, almost all the commanders who displayed such incompetence last summer remain in their positions.
On 24 November 1998, Mr Milosevic appointed Mr Ojdanic as his army's chief of general staff, after sacking Momcilo Perisic over disagreements regarding the policy towards Kosovo.
Yet Mr Erdogan has rushed to the defence of the current chief of general staff, Necdet Ozel, thanking him for his pledge to pay compensation to the families of the Sirnak victims.
Weinstein's belief that he has a right to serve as attorney general despite his ethical lapse while Galant should be denied his right to serve as chief of general staff due to his ethical lapse tells us that, like his colleagues in the legal fraternity, Weinstein has engaged in deeply prejudicial behavior.
On the other side of the debate, however, some ardently secular-minded writers have accused General Hilmi Ozkok, the unusually mild-mannered chief of the general staff, of being too soft on the government.
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said "thought and imagination" had gone into the training facility.
This week General Ilker Basbug, the chief of the general staff, admitted that the raids on the Special Forces Command were carried out within the law.
Putin also met over the weekend with the chief of the general staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, and Viktor Komogorov, deputy director of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB.
Turkey's new chief of the general staff, Isik Kosaner, has hardly uttered a peep.
Yet the chief of the general staff, General Ilker Basbug, broadly supports the government's softer Kurdish policy.
Britain's former Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Walker will take over the position on Friday, May 2.
Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.
Nowadays, even Turkey's chief of the general staff, Ilker Basbug, admits that military might alone will not fix Turkey's Kurdish problem.
Also there was the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Peter Wall.
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And on March 26th Turkey's chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok, announced that he wanted Turkish troops to enter northern Iraq only in full co-ordination with the Americans.
Perhaps even more telling was a declaration by General Hilmi Ozkok, the chief of Turkey's general staff, that Cyprus was a matter for the politicians.
Fernandes also sat in on April's talks between French Chief of Defense Staff General Pierre Kelche and his Indian counterpart Gen.
In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.
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Among the 96 people who died were the chief of the Polish general staff, the head of the central bank, the director of the Institute of National Remembrance (which investigates and documents crimes such as Katyn) and many other of the country's top public figures.
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Perhaps the most important of all was the appointment in October of Lieut-General Agus Widjoyo as chief of staff for territorial affairs.
It was well known that in 1973-74, as Richard Nixon crumbled under the weight of Watergate, General Haig, then chief of staff in succession to the disgraced H.
The chief of staff, General Gerardo Wolburg Redondo, said he would need permission to speak to me.
The Serbian Chief of Staff, General Zivota Panic, reportedly was in Baghdad recently meeting with the Iraqi defense minister.
The new army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, was chosen by Musharraf and the two men are very close.
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