The Aegean Army or Fourth Army is one of the four main formations of the Turkish Army. It covers the entire west coast of the Anatolia peninsula and has its headquarters in İzmir. It was organised in the 1970s in response to political tensions with Greece - the ongoing Aegean dispute.
Its stated mission is to protect Turkey's territory on its western coast. This is directed against the perceived threat posed by Greece's armament of the Aegean Sea islands. Greece, on the other hand, perceives the presence of the Aegean Army as a threat to its islands, citing strong offensive capabilities ascribed to the Aegean Army as well as the exposed and isolated geographical position of the islands as reasons of concern. Greek sources particularly point to the strong amphibian forces maintained by the Aegean Army as an indicator of its offensive nature. Turkey has countered such concerns by stating that besides being of a fundamentally defensive nature it is "basically a training army".
Irfan Özsert as commander of Turkey’s Aegean Army, a force primarily focused on countering Greece, signals potential turbulence in Turkey’s relations with Athens and NATO allies. The Aegean Army, ...
Seven early warning and jamming stations have thus far been installed on the eastern Aegean islands ... The TurkishArmy has unmanned aerial vehicles, such as Bayraktar Akinci, which are guided by satellite.
Due to his incredible strength, he did not need an army of Israelites... Shortly after Saul’s initial victory, the Philistines brought their army to meet the Israelites at the Valley of Elah.
Greeks began to leave their eastern Aegean homelands in the middle of the 6th century BCE. Centuries later, they expanded their range with the armies of Alexander the Great into what is now the modern ...
This is a sad and undeserved loss of prestige ... He was born in 1850 on the Aegean island of Lefkada, son of a Greek mother and an Irish surgeon serving in the British army ... The last decade or so of his life Hearn spent in Japan. He died in Tokyo ... .
In late November, with Prime MinisterGeorgios Papandreou’s approval, Scobie demanded the disarming of ELAS by December 10, and the creation of a new national army ... They were evidently counting on the Red Army’s coming down to the Aegean.
“Our will to protect the BlueHomeland from the Aegean to the Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean is one of them ... Our army and foreign affairs, especially MİT, have a lot of hard work and effort,” he added, during his speech.
If Turkey were to withdraw its threats against our country and disband the Aegean Army, would we consider demilitarization? The islands must remain fully armed and militarized, irrespective of explicit Turkish threats.
The militarization of certain Aegean islands, possibly in violation of ... However, Turkey’s Aegean Army looms as a threat across the Greek islands, and so does the fleet of hundreds of amphibious vessels.
November 14, 2023 ... 5 ... On Oct ... On Monday, Turkey and Greece announced they had agreed to implement confidence-building measures aiming to prevent an escalation between the Turkish and Greek armies in the Aegean Sea over their territorial differences ....
Even before the Republic of Türkiye was proclaimed on Oct. 29, 1923, its Aegean city of Izmir hosted an economic congress just months after it was liberated from the occupying Greek army in the Turkish War of Independence... 3, 1931 ... On Jan ... 1, 1961.
Türkiye on Wednesday will celebrate the 101st anniversary of its Victory Day, which commemorates the decisive defeat of the occupying Greek army in the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922 ... “Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean.
Since last summer, UAV countermeasure systems have been installed on some islands of the east Aegean, while the contract for the supply of fifth- and sixth-generation SpikeNLOS missiles for land army ...
