Lieutenant-General Ilker Giorgiulu has been appointed to the position of “commander” of the “security forces” in the occupied territories, replacing Lt.-General Osman Aytaç, according to a decision was published in the Official Gazette of Turkey regarding the appointments and transfers of 187 generals and admirals serving in the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF). Forces.
Lieutenant General Georgiouli served as director of the Land Warfare Institute. The former commander of the so-called security forces, Major General Aitats, is recalled to the center and appointed Head of Control and Evaluation of the Land Forces Command.
Giorghouliou was born in 1973 in Isklip in the province Corum, Turkey. In 1995 he graduated from the Land War School in Ankara with the rank of second lieutenant. He served in various posts in the TED, including commanding the 39th Infantry Division in the occupied territories in the late 1990s (1998-2000). In 2007 he completed his master's degree in international relations at Beckend University. He is married, has a child and knows English.