Turkish military

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç revealed that Turkish military warplanes shot down a Syrian military helicopter that crossed into Turkish airspace. Arınç explained that the Syrian helicopter had...

What could be the largest discovered inscribed tablet (stele), dating to the reign of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II between 605-562 BC, has been discovered in the Turkish city of...

Turkey's Department of Defence has announced that between 613,000 and 715,000 landmines have been planted along the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish Defence Minister Ismat Yilmaz told Jihan News Agency that:...

Two days ago, the Turkish army began a ten day drill at a base near its borders with Syria in light of growing fears over the spreading violence. According...

Turkey's President Abdullah Gül has approved a legal amendment intended to prevent the army from carrying out military coups d'état. Article 35 of the Turkish Army's Internal Service Code...

The Turkish government has appointed a new armed forces leadership within the framework of comprehensive changes to emphasise its control over the military, which has at times dominated political...

A Turkish court has convicted the country's former Chief of the General Staff to life imprisonment. Retired General Mehmet İlker Başbuğ was sentenced for his role in the "Ergenekon...

Watan newspaper has reported that several Turkish F-16 aircraft from the main Turkish Air Force base at Diyarbakir have flown over Urfa province on the border with Syria. It...

The Turkish Parliament has approved the renewal of a mandate that allows the Turkish government and Armed Forces to carry out military operations outside Turkey's borders when necessary. This...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that Turkey is taking the necessary measures to avoid future tragedies like the recent incident involving Turkish pilots being kidnapped in...

According to Turkish newspaper, Yeni Shafaq, close to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the head of the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT), Hakan Fidan, is expected to submit a...

Turkey's military chief of staff has revealed that two F-16 aircrafts took off from the Amasya Merzifon Airport in western Turkey and headed to the Syrian border, following reports...

In a rare incident, two Turkish F16 fighter jets have intercepted a Russian military spy plane above the international waters between the two countries in the Black Sea, the...

Sources in the Turkish army have revealed that Turkish authorities seized three truckloads of chemical materials at its border with Syria. In a statement, Turkish chief of staff said...

The trial of six former military officers charged with killing six Kurdish villagers in 1993 has begun in Hernak in south-eastern Turkey. The former military officers, who include generals,...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he would agree to the retrials of hundreds of army officers who were jailed for plotting a coup against...

On the heels of the British parliament's refusal to sanction a military attack on Syria, US President Barack Obama drove the issue of a possible intervention to a dead-end...

Part I The Turkish military has often been compared and contrasted in scholarly writing with its counterparts either in Western Europe or in Latin America. Secular-minded Turkish scholars scorn...

In the first part of this two-part series, a comparison was drawn between the Turkish and Egyptian armies. This comparison highlighted potential pitfalls that could occur before civilian control...

"Football Beyond Borders" is a student lead enterprise that was conceived almost three years ago. On the dawn of the third Beyond Borders tour the concept has become a...