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Topic: Turkish Gendarmerie

	Turkish Armed Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gendarmerie and Coast Guard operate as the parts of internal security forces in peacetime and are subordinate to the Army and Navy Commands respectively.
		The Turkish Armed forces, with a combined troop strength of 1,043,550 soldiers (Economist Intelligence Unit: Turkey 2005 p.23), is the second largest standing force in NATO after the United States.
		Currently, 36,000 troops are stationed in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus which is recognized only by Turkey and the OIC (N.B. The OIC recognizes the TRNC as the Turkish Cypriot State, as envisaged by the Anan Plan).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkish_Armed_Forces (844 words)

	Jandarma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gendarmerie officers are chosen from cadets during the second year of training at the military academy, an aptitude for law being a prime factor in the selection.
		As Birand notes, in contrast to Turkish gendarmerie operations, operations of the French, Belgian, and Italian gendarmeries are carried out primarily by officers and NCOs, privates being assigned sentry duty and other tasks that will not bring them into contact with the public.
		The commander of the gendarmerie said in 1993 that efforts were being made to tailor the personnel structure to enable the force to perform its missions more effectively.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/turkey/jandarma.htm (990 words)

	Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gendarmerie and Coast Guard operate as the part the Department of Internal Affairs in peacetime and are subordinate to the Army and Navy Commands respectively.
		On January 1st 2005 the Turkish Lira was replaced by the New Turkish Lira, at an exchange rate of 1 new lira to 1,000,000 old.
		The Turkish constitution recognises freedom of religion for individuals, and the religious communities are placed under the protection of state, but the constitution explicitly states that they cannot become involved in the political process, by forming a religious party for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkey (4196 words)

	Turkish Gendarmerie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gendarmerie of The Republic of Turkey is a branch of Turkish Armed Forces, which is responsible for the maintenance of Safety and public order as well as carrying out other duties assigned by laws and regulation, is an armed security and law enforcement force, having military nature.
		As a part of Turkish Armed Forces, The General Command of The Gendarmerie is subordinated to The General Staff in matters relating to training and education in connection with the Armed Forces, and to the Ministry of Interior in matters relating to the performance of the safety and public order duties.
		However, The General Commander of Gendarmerie is responsible to Ministry of Interior.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jandarma (221 words)

	Şemdinli bombing PKK’s doing, says gendarmerie - Turkish Daily News Feb 24, 2006
		Gendarmerie forces are responsible for rural security while police departments are responsible for security in urban areas.
		Gendarmerie personnel were found guilty without due process, he said, noting that their families had also become targets.
		The gendarmerie personnel in Şemdinli were there on Nov. 9 to share the information they had with the local prosecutor, arguing that the bombing had been the work of the PKK.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=36577 (529 words)

	Bulletins 190 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Turkish goverment and diplomatic service are regularly torn to pieces, and this time again over the French vote, for their inactivity and ineffectiveness in the discussions over this issue.
		Turkish anger has been revived by the decision of the City of Paris to erect a monument in memory of the 1915 Armenian genocide, described, on 30 January, by the Turkish Foreign Ministry as a "fresh blow at Franco-Turkish relations ".
		A meeting between Turkish M.P.s and a German Parliamentary delegation visiting Ankara of 30 January, was cut short because a German M.P. refused to remove a turban she was wearing that were in Kurdish national colours.
	www.institutkurde.org /en/publications/bulletins/bulletins.php?bul=190 (6205 words)

	Hizballah in Turkey Revives:
		At this stage, the organization shied away from targeting government institutions or security forces, while the Turkish security forces had their hands full with the PKK and saw fighting that group and not the KH as their priority.
		Once the Turkish security forces defeated the PKK in the late 1990s, arresting its leader Abdullah Ocalan in February 1999, and turned their attention to the KH, the group was easy prey.
		Turkish police dealt a serious blow to KH in a massive roundup that began in the Mardin province on March 14, 1999, with the capture of the organization’s computer files including personnel records.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=528 (1211 words)

	The Treaty of Sevres - Section I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Turkish subjects habitually resident in Egypt on December 18, 1914, will acquire Egyptian nationality ipso facto and will lose their Turkish nationality, except that if at that date such persons were temporarily absent from, and have not since returned to, Egypt they will not acquire Egyptian nationality without a special authorisation from the Egyptian Government.
		Turkish subjects habitually resident in territory which in accordance with the provisions of the present Treaty is detached from Turkey will become ipso facto, in the conditions laid down by the local law, nationals of the State to which such territory is transferred.
		The Turkish Government and the Greek Government respectively undertake to afford to the British, French and Italian Governments all necessary facilities for obtaining a sufficient water supply for the requirements of the staff engaged in the maintenance or protection of the said cemeteries or memorials, and for the irrigation of the land.
	www.dalebroux.com /assemblage/20021019TreatyofSevresSectionI-101.asp (10188 words)

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		The daughter, asked to prepare the body for burial, washed and wrapped the corpse in a shroud but "could not wash away the marks of torture and she was never the same after, talking about nothing but revenge," the mother said.
		The Turkish soldier was doing his military duty at the Adiyaman Province Gendarmerie Commando and the HPG guerrillas were told that he was heading to Trabzon on a short-term leave from his unit.
		Turkish army units have been dropped down by helicopters into the Harçik valley, Dokuzkaya and Uzun to search for the P.O.W. Most of the units have now been pulled back but a number of Turkish scout units remains in the area, according to HPG-BIM.
	www.freedom-for-ocalan.com /bulletin/2005/eJuly14.htm (2476 words)

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		"Turkish prosecutor seeks trial for human rights MP", a Turkish prosecutor is preparing to try an MP known for her human rights campaigns on the grounds that she obstructed justice by not revealing the identitites of prisoners who claimed to have been tortured, the Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday.
		The council's Committee of Ministers adopted a resolution urging "Turkish authorities, without further delay, to take ad hoc measures allowing the consequences of the applicants' convictions contrary to the" the European Convention on Human Rights "to be rapidly and fully erased," the organisation said in a statement.
		A Turkish prosecutor is preparing to try an MP known for her human rights campaigns on the grounds that she obstructed justice by not revealing the identitites of prisoners who claimed to have been tortured, the Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday.
	www.freedom-for-ocalan.com /bulletin/2000/eJuly24.htm (1975 words)

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		"Turkish sergeants confessed, Seferi Yilmaz alive", three sergeants from the Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence Service (JIS) have now been arrested for the bomb attack on November 9 against a bookstore owned by a Kurd in the city of Semdinli in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) after confessing during interrogation.
		Three sergeants from the Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence Service (JIS) have now been arrested for the bomb attack on November 9 against a bookstore owned by a Kurd in the city of Semdinli in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) after confessing during interrogation.
		Turkish Penal Code bears its sour fruits as Karaca is sentenced for "insulting and belittling the military" and Orhan Pamuk faces similar charges.
	www.flash-bulletin.de /2005/eNovember11.htm (3863 words)

	Gallipoli Placenames K-O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As part of the ravine was in Turkish hands, the Kereviz Dere was the scene of fierce fighting by the French during the consecutive Battles of Krithia.
		The Turkish Kireçtepe ('Limestone Hill') was originally the name of a single hill, but after the Suvla landings it soon referred to the complete mountainous range of hills north of Suvla Plain.
		A number of pickets consisting of Turkish Gendarmerie delayed the British advance on the ridge until it finally ground to a halt near Karakol Gap.
	user.online.be /~snelders/plnamko.htm (1563 words)

	The Cretan Constabulary in the Balkan wars
		Also existed the Turkish Gendarmerie and the police, who according to the treaty were not disarmed and naturally a lot of Turkish deserters, who were hanging around pointlessly in the streets begging for food and money.
		Initially, the Cretan Gendarmerie took care of the refugees organizing them in settlings in the suburbs of the city giving the possibility to the Municipality workers to clean the city.
		The pass of a Cretan Gendarmerie patrol, dressed in their national uniform, boots, vraka, shirt and toca hat on their heads.
	www.geocities.com /sssksadk/555.html (1270 words)

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		Four Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded when Kurdish HPG guerrillas attacked the Turkish gendarmerie base of Albayrak in the province of Van in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) on Nov. 30, the HPG Press and Liaison Office (HPG-BIM) reported.
		The attack was announced as a retaliation for the Turkish state's attack on the Kurds in the cities of Shemzinan (Semdinli) and Gever (Yuksekova).
		Some days after the court's ruling that Turkish law is consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights and with the protection of women's rights in general, a commission in the Netherlands ruled that a Muslim woman has the right not to wear the hijab.
	www.flash-bulletin.de /2005/eDecember5.htm (2827 words)

	(TURKEY IN TRAVAIL) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was the declaration of the death of the Ottoman Empire, and of the existence of the Turkish Nation.
		The Turkish Nationalists directed their energies primarily against the Greeks, but the Greeks were the agents of the Peace Conference, and rapidly the hostility of the Turks was directed against the Allies.
		The Turkish generals could give ground to save time; but it meant giving to their hated and despised enemy good pieces of Anatolia, and it meant that these had to be recovered.
	www.tallarmeniantale.com /turkey-in-travail.htm (15204 words)

	Other Public Services
		The source of personnel at management level of the Turkish Police Organi- zation is the Police College (High School), followed by the Police Academy, and the source of civil servants for the organization are the police schools in various provinces in Turkey.
		The Gendarmerie organization performs its functions in the areas outside of the borders of the municipalities.
		The Gendarmerie General Command performs security and public order services an area covering 92 percent of Turkey, by means of its 12 Gendarmerie Regional Commands, 80 Gendarmerie Provincial Commands, 900 Gendarmerie County Commands and 2,628 Gendarmerie Internal Security Stations.
	www.byegm.gov.tr /YAYINLARIMIZ/kitaplar/isteturkiye/english/public191.htm (442 words)

	Uprising spreads to Van: 2 Kurds dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		30,000 Kurds in the city of Yuksekova upset with the Turkish gendarmerie intelligence's bombattack on a Kurdish bookstore in the city of Semdinli, rallied to protest the Turkish state.
		Turkish security forces were attacked when they tried to block the protesters path.
		One Turkish sergeant was also captured by the Kurdish protesters.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=10584 (206 words)

	News Bulletin of Kurdistan People's Congress KONGRA-GEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Turkish leaders must start to engage in dialogue with the Kurds and their chosen leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who has already shown himself willing to talk to reach a mutual settlement beneficial to both Turks and Kurds.
		Meanwhile, a Turkish boy who died at the weekend did not carry the lethal bird flu virus as initially feared, Turkish officials said yesterday as they stepped up measures to avoid a second outbreak of the disease in a remote eastern region.
		Semdinli was the scene of violent clashes between Turkish police and Kurdish demonstrators, who protested the bomb attack carried out by a Turkish military intelligence unit on a Kurdish bookstore owned by a former Kurdish PKK guerrilla.
	www.kongra-gel.com /NewsBulletin/2006/01 (7006 words)

	The Post Ilinden Events in Macedonia during 1904 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the other side, the Turkish authorities were becoming more and more violent undertaking various methods of torture over the unprotected innocent population.
		Whenever it happened, the Turkish authorities immediately informed Nandrup, who was supposed to inspect the terrain and see in situ the real situation.
		Nandrup underlines that the civil agents mention three things which impede the Reforms: the resistance of the Turkish authorities, the poor economy, and the revolutionary propaganda and the hostilities between the Christian groups.
	www.macedon.org /makedonika/supporting_docs/stoicevski1.htm (1602 words)

	DozaMe.org » Blog Archive » Ten minutes to midnight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A total of 12 Turkish soldiers have been killed in several clashes on April 16-17 in the Besta area of rural Sirnak between the Kurdish HPG and the Turkish army.
		Turkish operations against the HPG guerrillas are being conducted in the Dicle district of Amed (Diyarbakir).
		Turkish army is one of the biggest and strongest army in the world and its time to pay the terrorists are gone punished.
	dozame.org /blog/2006/04/25/ten-minutes-to-midnight (3736 words)

	Cyprus PIO: Turkish Press and Other Media, 03-06-05
		[02] Turkish Gendarmerie Commander asked Azerbaijan to recognize the pseudostate Milliyet newspaper (05/06/03) reports that the Commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie Forces, Mr Sener Eruygur, met in Baku of Azerbaijan, with President Haydar Aliyev.
		He noted that the main wish and demand of the "TRNC" and the Turkish Cypriots is for the elimination of the embargoes that have been imposed for years.
		Stating that "The embargoes that the world and particularly the EU have imposed at the instigation of the Greek Cypriot side are the greatest obstacle in front of the "TRNC" economy," Miroglu pointed out that it has been noted that the embargoes are not eliminated in the document announced yesterday.
	www.hri.org /news/cyprus/tcpr/2003/03-06-05.tcpr.html (692 words)

	IOM Press Briefing Notes - 5 August 2005
		The Turkish gendarmerie rescued an additional five confirmed victims of trafficking at the town of Mersin on the Aegean coast late on 3 August.
		The 157 helpline is part of a Turkish government coordinated and IOM implemented campaign to combat human trafficking.
		The rights of children and the sensitive situations children face in times of conflict are issues that are being addressed in a series of workshops for the leadership of Haiti’s political parties, a few months before fresh elections in the country.
	www.iom.int /iomwebsite/en/archive/PBN050805.shtml (1150 words)

	Turkey Is Gathering Troops Along Southern Border With Iraq
		The Turkish troops deployed near the Iraqi border were identified as units of two commando brigades, Bolu and Kayseri.
		They said information on the troop concentrations was relayed by the Turkish Gendarmerie Command to forces in the district.
		On May 1, the Kurdish Workers Party claimed responsibility for an explosion in the western Turkish resort town of Kusdasi in which a police officer was killed.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article8744.htm (547 words)

	Turkish Gendarmerie: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Turkish Gendarmerie: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Branch of Turkish Millitary[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject], EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Turkish Gendarmerie maintains order in rural areas where police coverage is not avalible.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tu/turkish_gendarmerie.htm (208 words)

	Muyeser Gunes English
		We call on the Turkish government to set Muyeser Gunes and all the other others at liberty, we call on the government in Ankara, on the Turkish institutions, and on all citizens of Turkey to unchain peace.
		All this, while the Turkish prime minister Erdogan, in Rome for the Pope's funeral, expressed his objections to the presence in St Peter's Square of the Kurdish community in Rome who like other peoples where present with their flag.
		For this reason, we are launching an appeal, from the Women in Black to the Turkish government and to the Turkish embassy in Italy, as we ask for your support for the appeal and in distributing it.
	snellings.telenet.be /womeninblackleuven/muyeser_gunes_english.htm (2271 words)

	Sevres Treaty: Part V
		Officers supplied by the various Allied or neutral Powers shail collaborate, under the direction of the Turkish Government, in the command, the organisation and the training of the gendarmerie officers authorised by Article 158, but their number shall not exceed fifteen per cent.
		Special agreements to be drawn up by the Inter-Allied Commission mentioned in Article 200 shall fix the proportion of these officers according to nationality, and shall determine the conditions of their participation in the various missions assigned to them by this Article.
		Officers at present serving in the army or the gendarmerie who are not admitted to the new armed force shall be definitely released from all military obligations, and must not take part in any military exercises, theoretical or practical.
	www.hri.org /docs/sevres/part5.html (4523 words)

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		Local sources said Nechirwan Barzani, a nephew of the KDP leader and his chief political and military counselor, briefed the unnamed Foreign Ministry officials and the Turkish gendarmerie commanders on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks.
		Two major excursions by the Turkish troops earlier this year -- one conducted by 35,000 troops backed by jets and armor -- had caused complaints from the KDP which said that Ankara had omitted to give advance warning and neglected to coordinate with local authorities in order to minimize civilian losses.
		After the incursions, which dislodged the PKK separatists from their border camps, Turkish officials and the KDP discussed a border security arrangement, but Ankara found the Kurdish terms, including the upkeep of a 20,000-man peshmerga force to police the border and the resettlement of about 350 border villages, too unrealistic.
	www.b-info.com /places/Turkey/news/95-09/sep01.tdn (984 words)

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