Lieutenant General Begenç Ataýewiç Gündogdyýew (born 16 November 1976) is a Turkmen military officer and politician who currently serves as the 10th minister of defence of Turkmenistan under President Serdar Berdimuhamedow.

He joined the army in September 1993, attending the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense and graduating in June 1997 with a degree in command and tactical artillery troops.

[2] Four months later, he was made Chief of the General Staff, a position he would keep for 1 year and 144 days before he became the Minister of Defense of Turkmenistan, at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

On 15 August 2017, President Berdimuhamedow demoted Gündogdyýew to colonel following the latter's failure to handle incidents on the Turkmen border with Iran and Afghanistan in July 2017, when four ISIS militants tried to cross into the territory of Turkmenistan.

[12][13] He was reprimanded among other things for allowing troops to write off still serviceable cars to private individuals (for example, several ZIL and Ural trucks were sold from a motor pool stationed in the city of Serdar).