deaths
October 3, 2005
Nurettin Ersin, Turkish general (born 1918)
Nurettin Ersin
Nurettin Ersin was a Turkish general. He was the Commander of the 6th Corps during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, and the Commander of the Turkish Army during the 1980 military coup. After the coup he was a member of the Presidential Council, and was Chief of the General Staff of Turkey in the second half of 1983.