First Army (Turkey)

The first Turkish Army ( Turkish Birinci 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, where the army is stationed in Eastern Thrace. The army is responsible for securing the borders with Greece and Bulgaria as well as the strategically important straits Bosphorus and Dardanelles.

Supreme Commander

  • General Hilmi Ozkok (August 30, 1999 - August 30, 2000 )
  • General Yaşar Büyükanıt (August 30, 2003 - August 30, 2004 )
  • General Ahmet Hurşit Tolon (August 30, 2004 - August 30, 2006 )
  • General Fethi Remzi Tuncel (30 August 2006 - 30 August 2007)
  • General İsmail KOCMAN (August 30, 2007 - August 22, 2008 )
  • General Ergin Saygun (August 22, 2008 - August 30, 2009 )
  • General Hasan Iğsız (August 30, 2009 - August 30, 2010 )
  • General Hayri Kivrikoglu (August 30, 2010 - August 4, 2011 )
  • General Yalçın Ataman (August 4, 2011 - )
Field army East Thrace
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