ANKARA: The founder of Turkiye’s defense consultancy SADAT, widely viewed as Ankara’s secret weapon in wars across North Africa and the Middle East, died on Sunday according to Turkish media. Besides founding the private military outfit in 2012, 79-year-old Adnan Tanriverdi also served as a senior adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan between 2016 and 2020. A brigadier general whose service ended during a purge of Islamic influence from the traditionally secular military in 1996, Tanriverdi founded SADAT International Defense Consultancy in 2012.