Military
Turkish army secretly shipped arms to Syria after filing off serial numbers to prevent tracing
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish army’s elite Special Forces Command (Özel Kuvvetler Komutanlığı, or ÖKK) sent arms with their serial...
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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar kept cash reserves secret, failed to declare them in financial disclosure
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Hulusi Akar, Turkish defense minister and former chief of general staff, secretly bought several apartments for his...
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Turkey set to use strategic agreement with Afghanistan to help Taliban with military and defense industry
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who recently announced his desire to help the Taliban govern by...
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Turkish military lacks qualified officers to be promoted to general
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Officers promoted to the rank of general in NATO's second-largest army are relatively less educated and less qualified...
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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar greenlighted torture at illegal detention site
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Asım Şanöz, a major who worked as overseas planning officer at General Staff headquarters, accused Turkish the...
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Erdoğan determined to make Africa a new market for Turkish arms sales
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday hosted Angolan President Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in Ankara in the...
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Turkish prosecutor reviewed RAPCON records at Incirlik Air Base to investigate US troops over coup bid
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish prosecutor secretly investigated Radar Approach and Control (RAPCON) records at Incirlik Air Base, where the...
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Ultranationalist colonel who was convicted of attempting to overthrow Erdoğan now employed by his son-in-law’s drone company
Levent Kenez/Stockholm One of the convicted officers who took part in illegal military plans to create conditions ripe for...
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Turkish Parliament bombing in 2016 coup attempt was staged as part of a false flag
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A case involving the bombing of the Turkish Parliament in 2016, allegedly by coup plotters according to...
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Turkey to train Qatari fighter pilots amid efforts to ease tensions with the Gulf and Egypt
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey will train Qatari fighter pilots and allow the temporary deployment of up to 36 Qatari military...
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