1st Army (Turkey)
The 1st Army ( Turkish 1st Ordu ) is one of the four armies of the Land Forces (Kara Kuvvetleri) of the Turkish Armed Forces .
The 1st Army has its headquarters in the Selimiye Barracks (Selimiye Kışlası) in Istanbul's Üsküdar district on the Asian side of the city, with the army stationed in Eastern Thrace . The army is responsible for securing the borders with Greece and Bulgaria as well as the strategically important straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelles .
structure
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II Corps ( Gelibolu )
- 4th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Keşan )
- 8th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Tekirdağ )
- 18th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Çanakkale )
- 95th Tank Brigade ( Malkara )
- 102nd Artillery Regiment ( Uzunköprü )
- Engineer Regiment (Gelibolu)
- III. Corps ( Şişli )
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V Corps ( Çorlu )
- 1st Tank Brigade ( Babaeski )
- 3rd Tank Brigade ( Çerkezköy )
- 54th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Edirne )
- 55th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Süloğlu )
- 65th Mech Infantry Brigade ( Lüleburgaz )
- 105th Artillery Regiment ( Çorlu )
- Engineer Regiment ( Pınarhisar )
- 15th Infantry Brigade ( Köseköy )
Commander in Chief since 1990
- General Muhittin Fisunoğlu (23 August 1989 - 31 December 1990)
- General İsmail Hakkı Karadayı (January 1, 1991 - August 17, 1993)
- General Mehmet Hikmet Bayar (August 17, 1993 - August 22, 1994)
- General Hikmet Köksal (August 22, 1994 - August 26, 1996)
- General Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu (August 26, 1996 - August 26, 1997)
- General Atilla Ateş (August 26, 1997 - August 18, 1998)
- General Çevik Bir (August 18, 1998 - August 20, 1999)
- General Hilmi Özkök (August 20, 1999 - August 21, 2000)
- General Necdet Yılmaz Timur (August 21, 2000 - August 17, 2001)
- General Çetin Doğan (August 17, 2001 - August 20, 2003)
- General Yaşar Büyükanıt (August 20, 2003 - August 30, 2004)
- General Ahmet Hurşit Tolon (August 30, 2004 - August 19, 2005)
- General İlker Başbuğ (August 19, 2005 - August 17, 2006)
- General Fethi Remzi Tuncel (August 17, 2006 - August 17, 2007)
- General İsmail Koçman (August 17, 2007 - August 22, 2008)
- General Ergin Saygun (August 22, 2008 - August 30, 2009)
- General Hasan Iğsız (August 30, 2009 - August 30, 2010)
- General Hayri Kıvrıkoğlu (August 30, 2010 - August 4, 2011)
- General Yalçın Ataman (August 4, 2011 - August 23, 2013)
- General Ahmet Turmuş (August 23, 2013 - August 25, 2014)
- General Salih Zeki Çolak (August 25, 2014 - August 10, 2015)
- General Ümit Dündar (August 10, 2015 - July 23, 2016)
- General Musa Avsever (July 23, 2016 -)
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