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Turkey is the only country in the world to have operated tanks from practically every major player in World War II, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and France. [8] Little evidence of this past remains, save for the efforts of historians and writers to preserve and restore what would otherwise be lost. [2]
Mauser Model 1887 Turkish Mauser M1871/84 version. Ottoman-Mauser Model 1890 Turkish Mauser M1889 version. Mauser Model 1893. Mauser M1903. Mauser M1905 and Mauser M1908. Mauser Karabiner 98k. vz. 24. vz. 98/22. Mosin-Nagant M1891/30.
The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; Turkish: Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. The Turkish Armed Forces consist of the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The Chief of the General Staff is the Commander of the Armed Forces. In wartime, the Chief of the General Staff acts as the Commander ...
The Turkish Army traces its origin to the Ottoman Army. A theory accepted officially was that the Ottoman Armed Forces had been founded in 1363, when the Pençik corps (the predecessor of the Janissary Corps, the first full time professional military force established in Europe after the Roman legions) had been formed and, in this context, on 28 June 1963, it celebrated the 600th anniversary ...
In October 1941, Turkey and Germany signed the Clodius Agreement, named after the German negotiator Karl Clodius. Turkey agreed to export up 45,000 tons of chromite ore to Germany in 1941 and in 1942, and 90,000 tons of the mineral in both 1943 and 1944, contingent on Germany's supplies of military equipment to Turkey. Germany would provide as ...
PZL P.24: The Turkish Air Force ordered 14 P.24A and 26 P.24C, delivered by 1937. Another 20 P.24A/Cs were built under license in 1939 in Turkey at Kayseri Aircraft Factory (Turkish: Kayseri Tâyyare Fabrikası), followed by an additional 30 P.24G aircraft. Hawker Hurricane: 164 Hurricanes of different models (Mk. Is, Mk. IICs, Mk. IIBs and 44 Mk.
This is the order of battle of the Turkish Army in June 1941. The formation named 941-A Seferî Kuruluş was as follows: [1] First Army (Istanbul, Commander: Fahrettin Altay) Thrace Area X Corps (Kırklareli) 46th Infantry Division; K.Gr. [citation needed] 2nd Cavalry Division (elements reported at Lüleburgaz in 1935) [2] Independent Armored ...
The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War -era territorial conflict between the Soviet Union and Turkey. Turkey had remained officially neutral throughout most of the Second World War. [a] After the war ended, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet government to institute joint military control of passage through Turkish Straits, which connected ...