Levent Ergün

Levent Ergün (born 6 August 1966) is a Turkish general who has been the 50th and current commander of the Second Army since 2024.

Biography Ergün was born on 6 August 1966, in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from the Turkish Military Academy in 1988, specializing in infantry. He subsequently completed his training at the Infantry School in 1989.

From 1989 to 1992, Ergün served as a platoon and company commander in the 66th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. He then commanded a company in the 70th Mechanized Infantry Brigade from 1992 to 1994. Following this, he served at the Military Academy from 1994 to 1995. In 1995, Ergün was deployed as a platoon commander with the Peace Force Battalion stationed at Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Following his promotion to the rank of brigadier general in 2015, he commanded the 4th Commando Brigade. In 2016, Ergün was appointed head of the General Staff Operations Planning Department. In this capacity, he participated as the General Staff representative in a meeting between president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. vice president Joe Biden.