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Abdel-Fatah Al-Sisi foto Reuters

Abdel-Fatah Al-Sisi was promoted two full ranks in one go from Staff Major General to full General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defence and Military Production.

The former Director of the Military Intelligence and Scouting Agency is, at 58 years old, one of the youngest members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. He was born in 1954, while his predecessor, Hussein Tantawi, was commissioned as an officer soon after in 1956.

He also studied one year in the US (Pennsylvania)

Al-Sisi’s appointment came after President Mohamed Morsy announced he had retired Tantawi. Al-Sisi took the oath of office in front of Morsy soon after.

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Turkey's military chiefs 'quit'

General Isik Kosaner, the head of the Turkish armed forces, has quit along with the heads of the ground, naval and air forces.The country's state-run Anatolia news agency said the military chiefs wanted to retire because of tensions with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the recently re-elected prime minister.

Anatolia reported Kosaner as resigning "as he saw it as necessary". This is the first time so many top commanders in Turkey have stepped down at once.

In the first official reaction, Binali Yildirim, the transportation minister, said "the state would continue to function".

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