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5 unusual facts about Turkish Army


Aegean Army

The Aegean Army or Fourth Army is one of the four main formations of the Turkish Army.

Leslie Bates-Büyüktürkoğlu

Over her 15 years in Turkey, she taught English and contract law, she also represented American companies in the military market, and repaired helicopters for the Turkish Army.

TAI Turna

The Research and Development Department of the Turkish Ministry of National Defence awarded a contract to the TAI in August 1995 for the development of a drone for use by Turkish Air Force and Army in target tracking and gunnery firing exercises.

Tansu Çiller

One of Çiller's major achievements was to transform the Turkish Army from an organization using vintage equipment from the US Army into a modern fighting force capable of defeating the PKK, using hit-and-run tactics.

Yörük Ali Efe

Yoruk Ali continued the guerilla warfare against the Greek Army until his forces were enrolled within the ranks of the re-organized Turkish Army.


Cevat Abbas Gürer

Cevat Abbas Gürer also known as Mehmet Cevat Abbas Bey (1887; Niş (Niš) - July 4, 1943; Yalova) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army.

T-155 Fırtına

The T-155 howitzers are built at the 1st Army Maintenance Center Command of the Turkish Army in Adapazarı.

Yarbay

In the Turkish Army (Kara Kuvvetleri) and Turkish Gendarmerie (Jandarma) they serve as battalion commanding officer, in Turkish Navy battleship executive officer and in Turkish Air Force serve as squadron commander.


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Arkadi Monastery

Since the mid-October victory of Mustafa Pasha's troops at Vafes, the majority of the Turkish army was stationed in Apokoronas and were particularly concentrated in the fortresses around the bay of Souda.

Arnold Burrowes Kemball

In 1876 he served as British military commissioner accompanying Abdul-Kerim and his Turkish army in the 1876-77 Serbian-Ottoman War.

Battle of Kassa

The Austrian Commander, Field Marshal Aeneas de Caprara, defeated the Turkish army near the city and with this victory regained Habsburg control of which had been lost in 1682 to the Kuruc leader Imre Thököly.

Cavit

Cavit Erdel (1884-1933), military officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army general

David XI of Kartli

The Turkish army commanded by Lala Mustafa Pasha overran much of Georgia and dislodged Daud Khan, who had burnt the citadel of Tbilisi and taken shelter at Lorri.

Dersim Rebellion

According to Osman Pamukoğlu, a general in Turkish Army in the 1990s, Atatürk had given the operational order himself.

Gavril Stefanović Venclović

In 1690 he was a refugee from the Turkish army in Sentandrea, Hungary where he become a disciple of Kiprijan Račanin, who started a school for young monks, similar to the one in the municipality of Rača, near the river Drina, in Serbia.

İsmail Hakkı

İsmail Hakkı Bey (1883-1923), officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army

James Ben Ali Haggin

Haggin was the eldest of eight children of Terah Temple and Adeline (Ben Ali) Haggin, the daughter of Ibrahim Ben Ali, a Turkish army officer.

Mehmet Arif

Mehmet Arif Örgüç: "Hacı Arif" (1876-1940) military officer of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish army.

Nikola Jurišić

In 1532, Captain Nikola Jurišić defended the small border fort of Kőszeg (Kingdom of Hungary) with only 700-800 Croatian soldiers with no cannons and few guns, preventing the advance of the Turkish army of 120,000-140,000 toward Vienna.

ÖHD

Özel Harp Dairesi - the Special Warfare Department, a department of the Turkish Army from 1965 to 1992

Osman Nuri

Osman Nuri Koptagel (1874–1942), officer of the Ottoman Army and general of the Turkish Army

The Turkish Gambit

Upon arrival, Varvara is reunited with Pyotr, and Fandorin delivers his message: the Turkish army is advancing towards the Bulgarian town of Plevna, which sits on the road to Sofia and must be taken so the Russian army can easily advance through Bulgaria and into Turkey.