Agageldy Mämmetgeldiýew

Army General Agageldy Mämmetgeldiýewiç Mämmetgeldiýew (10 September 1946) is a Turkmen military officer who served as the minister of defence of Turkmenistan from 2003 to 2009.

He served at a country residence of the President Saparmyrat Nyýazow, who appreciated the care of the military doctor and ensured him a career.

In 1994, Mämmetgeldiýew was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense to Colonel General Dangatar Kopekov and the head of the Main Directorate of Logistics and Supply of the Armed Forces.

Mämmetgeldiýew proposed the use of Turkmen soldiers for cotton cultivation to Nyýazow during a Defender of the Fatherland Day event in January 2005.

[7] After the sudden death of Nyýazow in December 2006, many observers saw him as one of the main executors of the plot to arrange for succession of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.