{{Short description|Turkish military officer (1914–2004)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox military person | name = Fuat Doğu | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | birth_name = Mehmet Fuat | other_name = | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth year|1914}} | birth_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | death_date = 31 May {{death year and age|2004|1914}} | death_place = Istanbul, Turkey | burial_place = | allegiance = {{flag|Turkey}} | branch = {{army|Turkey}} | branch_label = <!--"Branch" or "Service"--> | service_years = | service_years_label = | rank = Lieutenant general | rank_label = | service_number = | unit = | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = | memorials = | alma_mater = Turkish Military Academy | spouse = <!--{{marriage|name|start date|end date}}; add spouse if reliably sourced--> | children = 2 | relations = | other_work = Undersecretary of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | module = }} '''Fuat Doğu''' (1914–2004) was a Turkish military officer who served as the undersecretary of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency and as the ambassador of Turkey to Portugal.
==Early life and education== He was born in Istanbul in 1914.<ref name=niabio>{{cite web|title=Mehmet Fuat Doğu (1914-2004)|url=https://www.mit.gov.tr/eng/must-biyog13.html |publisher=National Intelligence Agency|access-date=18 April 2023}}</ref> He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy.<ref name=niabio/>
==Career and activities== After working at different positions in the Turkish Land Forces Staff Lieutenant Colonel Doğu joined the National Intelligence Agency on 14 September 1954.<ref name=enson>{{cite news|title=Fuat Doğu kimdir|url=https://www.ensonhaber.com/biyografi/fuat-dogu-kimdir|access-date=18 April 2023 |work=En Son Haber|date=10 February 2022|language=tr}}</ref> He was one of the pupils of German military and intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen.<ref name=enson/> Doğu became a staff colonel and was named as the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Agency on 27 August 1962.<ref name=niabio/> His term ended on 25 August 1964, and he was appointed as the commander of the 59th Division in Sivas.<ref name=enson/> Then he was made a member of the General Staff Inspection Board.<ref name=enson/> He retired from the army with the title of lieutenant general.<ref name=enson/>
Doğu was reappointed as the undersecretary of the intelligence agency on 1 March 1966.<ref name=niabio/> The agency began to collect information for the National Security Council which had been established with the new constitution put into force in 1961.<ref>{{cite book|author=Feroz Ahmad|author-link=Feroz Ahmad|editor1=Celia Kerslake|editor2=Kerem Ökten|editor3=Philip Robins|title=Turkey's Engagement with Modernity|year=2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-31326-6|doi=10.1057/9780230277397_7|page=98 |chapter=Military and Politics in Turkey|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277397_7}}</ref> Prime Minister Nihat Erim and Deputy Prime Minister Sadi Koçaş found that Doğu was heading a secret unit within the National Intelligence Agency.<ref name=ilkay>{{cite journal|author=İlker Aytürk|title=The Flagship Institution of Cold War Turcology|issue=24 |journal=European Journal of Turkish Studies|year=2017|doi=10.4000/ejts.5517|doi-access=free}}</ref> They fired him from office on 23 July 1971.<ref name=ilkay/> In 1973 Doğu was appointed ambassador of Turkey to Portugal and served in the post until 1978.<ref name=enson/>
==Death== Doğu died on 31 May 2004.<ref name=enson/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Turkish Ambassadors to Portugal|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}}
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