National Defense University Archives

Turkey’s military is rapidly making room for an Erdogan-era generation

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s latest military appointments show a command structure in transition. Although officers who began their careers long before ...

76 percent of Turkish army officers now graduates of Erdogan’s military schools

by Levent Kenez

September 5, 2025

Levent Kenez/Stockholm More than three-quarters of Turkish military officers are now graduates of the National Defense University, a school created ...

Turkey rekindles Ottoman aspirations with renewed push toward Vienna

by Abdullah Bozkurt

July 29, 2024

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The imperial ambitions and expansionist vision harbored by the Islamist-led government in Turkey have once again been revealed ...