New Chief of Turkey’s Armed Forces General Staff defended PhD thesis on the topic of “Military mission of General Harbord to Armenia: History of American investigative delegation and its impact on Turkish-American relations.”

Several days ago, Turkey’s Supreme Military Council adopted a decision at its meeting to appoint Land Forces Commander Hulusi Akar as the new Chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff. Parallel with his career, the latter devoted lots of time to his education and trainings. In 2005, Hulusi Akar defended in English his PhD thesis on the aforementioned topic in Turkey’s Boğaziçi University.