An agreement was reached on Sunday night between the government and the military over the appointment of top army chiefs following last week’s Supreme Military Council, or YAÞ.

Gen. Iþýk Koþaner was appointed Sunday as the new chief of the Turkish General Staff and Gen. Erdal Ceylanoðlu was appointed as the new commander of the Land Forces.

The posts of new army chief and Land Forces commander should have been announced last Wednesday at the end of the four-day YAÞ, but the two posts were left vacant.

The appointments were announced after a meeting at the Çankaya Presidential Palace between President Abdullah Gül, former chief of General Staff Gen. Ýlker Baþbuð and Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül.

Born in Izmir in 1945, Gen. Koþaner graduated from the War Academy of the Land Forces in 1978. He served as the commander of the Turkish Peace Forces in northern Cyprus, the commander of the Aegean Army and as the deputy chief of the General Staff. Gen. Koþaner was appointed as the commander of the Gendarmerie Forces in 2006 and as the commander of the Land Forces in 2008.

Gen. Ceylanoðlu was born in Kayseri in 1945. He graduated from the War Academy of the Land Forces in 1976 and was appointed as the commander of the Land Forces Training and Doctrine Command in 2007.