Cihat Yaycı (born on 29 April 1966 in Elazığ^[1]) is a Turkish author, former rear admiral, and theoretician of the "Blue Homeland".^{[lower-alpha 1]}

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(R) Admiral Assoc. Prof. Cihat Yaycı
Born	April 29, 1966 Elazığ, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation(s)	Officer, scholar
Known for	"Blue Homeland";[lower-alpha 1]
Partner	Müşerref Yaycı
Children	Baybars Yaycı

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Cihat Yaycı born in Elazığ in 1966, entered the Naval High School in 1984. In 1988, he finished Naval Academy and graduated from the Naval War Academy in 2000 and the Joint Warfare Institute in 2003. He received a master's degree in business human resources management in English from Marmara University, and physics engineering and electronic engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and completed his doctorate in international relations from İstanbul University.^{[1][13][14][15]}

Yaycı, worked as a branch officer and division chief on some ships under the Naval Forces Command, served as the commander of TCG Kemalreis between 2005 and 2006. After his duties as the second commander of TCG Yavuz and TCG Kemalreis. In 2011-2012, it became the 5th Destroyer Flotilla Commodore. Yaycı, who was promoted to Commodore on 30 August 2012, was appointed as Moscow military attaché in the same year. He assumed the duties of Southern Task Group Commander and Director of the Multinational Maritime Security Center of Excellence in 2014, and Commander of the Multinational Joint Warfare Center in 2015 and became rear admiral on 29 July 2016. Yaycı, who was appointed as the Personnel Head of the Naval Forces Command in the same year, was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces Command on 20 August 2017.^{[15][14][13][1]}

List of Books Yaycı wrote:^[27][13][28]

• Orta Doğu'nun Önemi ve Irak'ta Yaşanan Savaşlar (1990 - 2003)
• Sorular ve Cevaplar ile Münhasır Ekonomik Bölge
• Libya Türkiye'nin Denizden Komşusudur
• Doğu Akdeniz'in Paylaşım Mücadelesi ve Türkiye
• Yunanistan Talepleri Ege Sorunları Soru ve Cevaplarla

• Aegean dispute
• Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute