Hassan Turkmani, Vice President and Syrian General

Hasan Turkmani, a Sunni Muslim born in Aleppo in 1935. He graduated as a field artillery lieutenant and joined the Syrian Army in 1954.

Turkmani commanded a mechanized division during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. He was promoted to the rank of major general in 1978 and then as Syrian army chief of staff in January 2002.

On 03 June 2009, President Bashar al Assad appointed Hassan Turkmani as Assistant Vice President with the rank of minister. He was also appointed Chief of Crisis Operations and was widely blamed for the campaign of torture in Syria.

Turkmani was often quoted for wanting to modernize Syria's military.

Hasan Turkmani died on 18 July 2012 during an attack on the National Security Building in Damascus, where the minister of defense Dawoud Rajiha and his deputy Assef Shawkat were also killed.

Hassan Turkmani, Vice President and Syrian General

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