Gendarmerie General Command

Ottoman era

After the abolition of the Janissary corps of the Ottoman Empire in 1826, military organizations called Asâkir-i Muntazâma-i Mansûre, Asâkir-i Muntazâma-i Hâssa, and, in 1834, Asâkir-i Redîfe were established for security and public order in Anatolia and in some provinces of Rumelia.^{[citation needed]}

As the first use of the term Gendarmerie was in the Assignment Decrees published in the years following the 1839 Edict of Gülhane, it is assumed that the Gendarmerie organization was founded after that year, but the exact date of foundation has not yet been determined. Therefore, the date on which the name Asâkir-i Zaptiye Nizâmnâmesi was adopted, June 14, 1839, is usually considered the foundation date of the Turkish Gendarmerie.^[4]

After the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, Ottoman prime minister Mehmed Said Pasha decided to bring police officers from Britain and France to establish a modern law enforcement organization. The Gendarmerie was used to great effect after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, particularly in Rumelia. In 1909, the Gendarmerie was affiliated with the Ministry of War, and its name was changed to the Gendarmerie General Command (Ottoman Turkish: Umûm Jandarma Kumandanlığı).

Gendarmerie units continued their internal security duties as well as taking part in the conflict at various fronts as a part of the Armed Forces during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence.^{[citation needed]}

Republic of Turkey

20th century

The Gendarmerie organization achieved its current legal status on June 10, 1930. In 1939, the Gendarmerie organization was restructured, having three groups: Fixed Gendarmerie Units, Mobile Gendarmerie Units, and Gendarmerie Training Units and Schools.^{[citation needed]}

In 1956, the Gendarmerie General Command was assigned the duties of protecting borders, coasts and territorial waters, and fighting smuggling, which had been previously carried out by the Gümrük Umum Kumandanlığı, under the Ministry of Customs and Monopoly. In 1957, Gendarmerie Border Units were transformed into brigades, and Gendarmerie Training Brigades were established.^{[citation needed]}

In 1961, Gendarmerie Regional Commands were established. In 1968, the first Gendarmerie Aviation Unit was established in Diyarbakır under the name of Light Helicopter Company Command.^{[citation needed]}

In 1974, Gendarmerie Commando Units and Gendarmerie Aviation Units took part in the Turkish military operations in Cyprus.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, the duty of protecting the land borders and ensuring their security was assigned to the Land Forces Command, but Gendarmerie General Command still holds the responsibility for some parts of the Iranian and Syrian borders and the whole Iraqi border.^{[citation needed]}

The Gendarmerie Criminal Department was founded in Ankara in 1993 and from 1994, Gendarmerie Regional Criminal Laboratory Superiorities? were founded. Crime Scene Examination Teams, Explosive Material Disposal Units, Fingerprints and Palm Prints Branches and Crime Scene Examination Units were also established.^{[citation needed]}

21st century

In 2016, the Gendarmerie General Command was affiliated to the Ministry of Interior.^[5]

In 2018, Gendarmerie Special Operations participated in Operation Olive Branch, part of the Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War.^{[citation needed]} According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, Turkish Gendarmerie killed 500 Syrian civilians at the turkish-syrian border.^[6]

The Gendarmerie General Command currently has a total of 3,600 units, including 3,056 Internal Security Units, 218 Commando Units, 162 Prison Units, 160 Protection Units and four Aviation Units.^{[citation needed]}

The duties of the gendarmerie according to the Law No. 2803 on the Organization, Duties and Powers of the Gendarmerie; It is categorized under four main titles as judicial, military, civil and other duties.^[7]

Judicial duties

• Finding crimes and criminals,
• Capturing suspects,
• Transferring evidence judicial authorities,
• Conduct preparatory investigations when instructed to by the public prosecutor,
• Transporting prisoners between jails and courthouses.

Civil duties

• To ensure that the services for general safety and security are carried out in accordance with the relevant legislation,
• To carry out the services of informing the public about how to protect the society from public order crime, directing children and young people to crime and taking precautionary measures,
• To evaluate the information and statistics about public order crimes, to conduct or have an analysis of the crime and to determine the methods of combating crime to prevent public order crimes by evaluating them,
• Carrying out activities to prevent crime,
• Preventing, pursuing and investigating smuggling,
• External protection of penal institutions and detention centers.

Military duties

• To perform military services provided by law

Other duties

• These are duties other than judicial, military and civil duties, such as facility and personal protection and transport security, which must be carried out in accordance with laws and regulations, orders and decisions.

Commands

Gendarmerie General Command Headquarters (Ankara)

• Gendarmerie Security Corps Command (Van)
  • 23. Gendarmerie Border Division (Şırnak)
  • 21. Gendarmerie Border Brigade (Yüksekova)
  • 1. Gendarmerie Commando Brigade (Çakırsöğüt, Şırnak)
  • 2. Gendarmerie Commando Brigade (Bornova, İzmir)
• Gendarmerie Training Command (Ankara, İncek, Gölbaşı)
  • 1. Gendarmerie Training Battalion Command (Aydın)
  • 2. Gendarmerie Training Battalion Command (Bilecik)
  • 3. Gendarmerie Training Battalion Command (Ezine, Çanakkale)
  • 5. Gendarmerie Training Regiment Command (Gölköy, Kastamonu)
  • 6. Gendarmerie Commando Training Regiment Command (Kırkağaç, Manisa)
  • 7. Gendarmerie Commando Training Regiment Command (Yenifoça, İzmir)
  • Gendarmerie Combat Training Battalion Command (Seferihisar, İzmir)
  • Gendarmerie Transport Battalion Command (Söğüt, Bilecik)
  • 10. Gendarmerie Training Regiment Command (Bornova, İzmir)
  • 116. Gendarmerie Private Training Regiment Command (Çanakkale)
  • 121. Gendarmerie Training Regiment Command (Serinyol, Antakya)
  • 125. Gendarmerie Training Regiment Command (Safranbolu, Karabük)
  • Işıklar Gendarmerie NCO High School (Bursa) ( was established in 1845 as "Mekteb-i Fünun-u İdadi"')
  • Gendarmerie Horse and Dog Training Center Command (Nevşehir) (JAKEM)
• Gendarmerie Logistics Command (Güvercinlik, Ankara)
• Gendarmerie Aviation Command (Güvercinlik, Ankara)
  • Gendarmerie UAV Command (Elazığ)
• Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command (JÖAK)
  • Gendarmerie Special Operations (JÖH)^[8]
  • Gendarmerie Search and Rescue Battalion Command (JAK)^[9]
  • Gendarmerie Underwater Search and Rescue Teams (SAK)^[10]
  • Gendarmerie Public Security Boat Commands (Security and public order services at inland waters are carried out by the Gendarmerie Public Order Boat Commands.)
• Village guards
• Prison Gendarmerie Division Commands (There are garrison stations appointed in every prison)
• The Gendarmerie Band Command^[11]

Criminal units

• Provincial Gendarmerie Commands in 81 provinces & in 388 districts.
  • The Crime Scene Investigation Teams (CSIT) (Working under the Provincial and District Gendarmerie Commands systematically examine the crime scene by means of technical and scientific methods; properly gather physical evidences; pack and send them to forensic laboratories.)
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams ( which have been established in tourism regions, regions with a concentration of terror incidents and big cities, dispose of explosive ordnances.)
  • Crime scene investigation units^[12]
  • Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Department (ASOCD)^[13]

Other units

• Gendarmerie Traffic Teams
  • The Gendarmerie Motorcycled Public Order Teams (Round-the-clock at the highways established by the protocols in the responsibility areas of the Gendarmerie General Command.)
• Gendarmerie Dog Teams
• Gendarmerie Environmental Protection Teams (Environmental Protection Teams have been established in order to protect environment, ecological balance and natural life, to protect living species and areas protected by national legislation and international conventions and to prevent environmental pollution.)^[14]
• The Gendarmerie Mounted Units (Used in performing patrolling services at resort areas, forestlands, recreation spots and museums (Topkapı Palace), and in performing preventive law enforcement services.)^[15]

Officers

NATO code	OF-10		OF-9		OF-8		OF-7		OF-6		OF-5		OF-4		OF-3		OF-2		OF-1						OF(D)						Student officer
Turkish Gendarmerie v t e																															Various [a]
			Orgeneral		Korgeneral		Tümgeneral		Tuğgeneral		Albay		Yarbay		Binbaşı		Yüzbaşı		Üsteğmen		Teğmen		Asteğmen

Other Ranks

NATO code	OR-9						OR-8		OR-7		OR-6						OR-5						OR-4				OR-3		OR-2						OR-1
Turkish Gendarmerie[16][17] v t e																							Uzman Jandarma VIII Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma VII Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma VI Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma V Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma IV Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma III Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma II Kademeli Çavuş Uzman Jandarma I Kademeli Çavuş		Uzman Çavuş IV Uzman Çavuş III Uzman Çavuş II Uzman Çavuş I
	Astsubay kıdemli başçavuş						Astsubay başçavuş		Astsubay kıdemli üstçavuş		Astsubay üstçavuş						Astsubay kıdemli çavuş			Astsubay çavuş							Uzman onbaşı

The Gendarmerie Museum is established in order to reflect the developments in periodical order beginning with the foundation of the Gendarmerie organization; to exhibit its activities, heroic deeds, services in the history; to protect all kinds of military cultural assets related to the Gendarmerie by collecting them and to transfer them to the future generations. The Gendarmerie Museum in the Beytepe Lieutenant General İsmail SELEN Quarters in Ankara and is open to public.^[18]

Handguns

• Yavuz 16^[19]
• Glock 19^[20]
• SAR 9^[21]
• TP9^[22]
• K2000 Mega^[23]
• M1911^[24]
• Zigana T and F^[25]
• Beretta 92FS^[25]
• Browning Hi-Power^[25]
• Girsan Regard Compact^[25]
• Girsan Regard MC^[25]

Shotguns

• SPAS-12^[19]
• Sarsılmaz Cobra & Baba^[25]
• Armsan Armtac RS A2/A3^[25]

Submachine guns

• HK MP5^[19]
• P90^[26]
• SAR-109T^[27]
• Uzi^[28]

Assault and battle rifles

• AKM^[19]
• HK G3^[19]
• HK G41^[19]
• HK33A4^[19]
• M16A1^[19]
• M4A1^[25]
• MKEK MPT-76^[29]
• MKEK MPT-55^[29]
• Kale KCR-556 New primary rifle of Gendarmerie 43.500 Rifles delivered late 2019^[30]
• Galil MAR used by Turkish Gendarmarie commando's^[31][32]
• SAR 223P^[33]
• SAR 308 used by Village guards.

Machine guns

• HK23E^[19]
• RPK
• M249 SAW
• M2^[19]
• MG3^[19]
• PKM^[19]
• MAG 58^[25]
• SAR 762 MT^[34]
• Canik M2 QCB^[35]
• Type 80^[36]
• KMG556^[37]

Sniper rifles

• Arctic Warfare^[19]
• SVD^[19]
• Tac-50^[19]
• SR-25^[38]
• SR-15 Match^[25]
• HK G28^[25]
• Armalite M-15T^[39]
• IMI Galatz^[40]
• Accuracy International AWM^[41]
• LMT MWS 308^[25]
• MKEK JNG-90^[42]
• Robar RC-50^[43]
• MacMillan M87R^[25]
• PSL (rifle)^[43]
• KNT-76^[44]

Rocket and grenade launchers

• HK 69^[19]
• HK 79^[25]
• HK GLM^[25]
• M203^[25]
• Milkor MGL^[19]
• Mk 19^[45]
• RPG-7^[19] 7B^[46]
• AK-40GL^[25]
• Kale KGL40^[25]
• MKEK 40mm^[25]
• MKEK T40^[25]

Mortars

• M19^[19]
• M29^[19]
• Mortier 120mm Rayé Tracté Modèle F1^[19]
• Aselsan Alkar^[47]

Directed energy weapon

• JARMOL^[48]-Laser weapon

Anti-drone system

• ASELSAN IHTAR KARTAL-2^[49]

Unmanned ground vehicles

• COŞKUN - EOD robot^[50]

Vehicles and Aerial vehicles

Model	Image	Origin/Assembly	Type	Variant	Quantity	Details
Patrol vehicles
TOGG[51]		Turkey	Electric Patrol vehicle	SUV	N/A
BMC Tulga			Armoured patrol vehicle	SUV		Expected to enter the inventory of Gendarmerie 2025.It will be produced 300 in total.[52][53]
Isuzu D-Max[54]		Japan  Turkey	Patrol vehicle	Pick-up	N/A
Dacia Duster[55]		France  Romania  Turkey		SUV
Fiat Egea[56]		Italy  Turkey		Sedan	50
Fiat Doblo[56]				Bus	50
Reanult Megane[57]		France  Turkey	Traffic patrol vehicle	Sedan	N/A
Renault Fluence[57]
Toyota Corolla[58]		Japan  Turkey
Mitsubishi Triton[59]				Pick-up
Nisan Navara[54]
Ford Ranger[60]		United States  Turkey	Patrol vehicle
Ford Transit Custom[61]				Van
Ford Transit[62]
Honda Africa Twin[57]		Japan  Turkey	Patrol Motorbike	CRF1000L
BMW R1200[57]		Germany  Turkey		R1200 GS
Armoured vehicles
Sisu Nasu		Finland	Tracked All-Terrain Vehicle	NA-140 BT	47
BMC Kirpi		Turkey	MRAP	Kirpi Kirpi II[63]	200 200[64][65]	Integrated JARMOL Directed energy weapon on Kirpi 1.[66] It can be combined with IHTAR KARTAL-2 anti-drone system.[49]
BMC Vuran[67]		Turkey	MRAP	Vuran 4x4 Vuran Alkar	200	BMC Vuran armored vehicle with Mobile Adjustable Ramp System.[68] The Gendarmerie took delivery of the VURAN vehicles mounted on the ALKAR 120mm Mortar Weapon System. Mobile mortar capability will be gained with ALKAR-mounted VURAN vehicles.[47]
Nurol Ejder[67]		Turkey	MRAP	Ejder Yalçın 4x4	400+[69]
Otokar Cobra		Turkey	Infantry Mobility Vehicle	Cobra I Cobra II[67]	200 100[64]
Otokar Ural	-	Turkey	Armoured patrol vehicle		N/A[70]
Shorland S55		Turkey  United Kingdom	Armoured Patrol vehicle		100[71]
FNSS PARS		Turkey	Armoured personnel carrier			Expected to be delivered 6x6 and 8x8 vehicles in 5 different variants.[72]
TOMA[67]		Turkey	Armoured vehicle		N/A	Community Incident Intervention Vehicle.
Dragoon		United States	Amphibious Armoured fighting vehicle	Dragoon 300	150[73]
Engineering vehicle
MEMATT	-	Turkey	Demining vehicle			2 on order[74]
Aircraft
Beechcraft Super King Air[75][76]		United States	Light transport/ Reconnaissance aircraft	B350[77]	N/A	Used by Gendarmerie Aviation Command[76]
Cessna C-680		United States	Light transport aircraft	C-680[78]
AQUILA A212		Germany	Light aircraft/Trainer aircraft	A212	1[79]	New variant in use.[80]
TAI Hürkuş		Turkey	Light attack	Hürkuş-C		Planned acquisition.[81]
Helicopters
TAI/AgustaWestland T129 ATAK		Turkey  Italy	Attack helicopter	T-129A T-129B	13[82]	24 in total planned.[83]
Sikorsky-S70 Black Hawk		United States  Turkey	Medium Transport/Utility helicopter	S-70A S-70i T-70	12[84] N/A 3[85]	Avionics upgraded by ASELSAN. 30 T-70 on order.[86]
TAI T625 Gökbey		Turkey	Light Transport/Utility Helicopter	T625		It will replace UH-1 Huey helicopters. 3 on order.[87]
UH-1 Huey		United States	Utility helicopter/Transport	AB-205A	10[71][88]	Avionics upgraded by ASELSAN.
Mil Mi-17		Russia	Transport/Utility helicopter	Mi-17 IVA	18[71]	Avionics upgraded by ASELSAN. Upgraded with night vision system.[89]
Gyrocopter
Autogyro Cavalon		Germany	Reconnaissance/Surveillance		3[90]	6 more planned.[91]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
TAI Anka		Turkey	UCAV	Anka S	8[92][93]	Elazig Gendarmerie UAV command[94][95]
Bayraktar TB2				TB2	18[96]
STM KARGU[97]			Loitering munition	Kargu-2	N/A
Baykar Bayraktar Mini			Miniature UAV	C
UÇBEY[98]	-		VTOL UAV
Black Hornet Nano[99]		Norway	Micro-UAV	PD-100 Black Hornet

Additional info : Gendarmerie also acquired 130 basic and 5 professional Micro UAV systems. It is also planned acquisition of new liaison and utility aircraft.^[100]

[1]

Vehicles : Otokar Akrep - 250+, BTR-60 - 180 , BTR-80 - 295 , Condor - 25

[2][3]

Aircraft : Cessna O-1E Bird Dog , Dornier Do-28D - 2

Helicopters : Bell 212 - 1 , Bell 206 - 8

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  Gendarmerie's Ford Transit and a trooper
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  Traffic gendarmerie's Renault Megane
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  Gendarmerie interceptor
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  Jandarma Barracks in Sivas built in 1908
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  Gendarmerie museum
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  BTR-80 in the gendarmerie inventory
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  Gendarme School emblem
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  Logo of Işıklar Gendarmerie NCO Vocational School
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  Gendarmerie Search and Rescue Battalion Command teams during Soma mine disaster
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  Işıklar Gendarmerie NCO Vocational School
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  Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy
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  Gendarmerie Martyrs' Memorial
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  The Kızılırmak Delta is guarded by the mounted gendarme team
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  Sikorsky S-70i helicopter of the Turkish Gendarmerie

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