Turkey vs Armenia

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The Republic of Turkey's military forces are known as the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF, Turkish: Turk Silahli Kuvvetleri or TSK). The General Staff, the Land Forces (Land Forces), the Naval Forces (Naval Forces) and the Air Forces make up the Turkish Armed Forces. General Yasar Guler is the current Chief of General Staff. The Commander of the Armed Forces is the Chief of the General staff. The Commander of the Armed Forces is the Chief of General Staff. In wartime, the Commander-in–Chief for the President is the Chief of General Staff. He represents the Supreme Military Command of TAF on behalf of Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The General Staff is responsible for coordinating the military relations between the TAF and NATO member states as well as friendly states. The formation of the Turkish Armed Forces was the beginning of their history. The Turkish military saw itself as the guardian for Kemalism, the official ideology of the state, and its emphasis on secularism.

Turkey joined NATO in 1952 and began a vast modernization program for its armed force. Turkey sent 14,936 soldiers to the Korean War with South Korea and NATO. A second restructuring was started towards the end of 1980s. The Turkish Armed Forces participate in an EU Battlegroup under the control of the European Council, the Italian-Romanian-Turkish Battlegroup. NATO's Eurocorps multinational army corps initiative, the Eurocorps Multinational Army Corps Initiative of the EU and NATO also has operational support from the TAF. The Turkish Armed Forces are the second-largest standing military force in NATO after the U.S. Armed Forces. They have an estimated strength of 895,000 paramilitary and military personnel in 2021. Turkey is also part of the NATO nuclear sharing policy. The Incirlik Air Base houses 50 U.S.-made B61 nuclear bombs, which is the largest number of these five countries.

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The Armed Forces of Armenia (Armenian, Hayastani zinvats owzher; romanized as Hayastani zinvats uzher), also known as the Armenian Army (Armenian, Haykakan banak; romanized Haykakan Banak) is Armenia's national military. It is composed of personnel branches of the General Staff Armenian Armed Forces. These can be broken down into the Ground Forces, Air Force, and Air Defense Forces. Although it was partly formed from the ex-Soviet Army forces stationed within the Armenian SSR, mainly units of 7th Guards Army of Transcaucasian Military District, the history of Armenia's military can be traced back as far as 1918 when the First Republic of Armenia was founded. Armenia is a landlocked nation and has no navy.

Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia is the Commander-in-Chief. Vagharshak Halutiunyan is the Minister of Defence and the Chief of Staff is Lieutenant-General Artak Davyan. Military command is still in the control of the General Staff. The Ministry of Defence was responsible for the formation of border guards that patrolled Armenia's borders with Georgia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Russian troops are still monitoring its borders with Iran, Turkey, and other countries. Armenia is a member since 2002 of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Armenia signed a military cooperation agreement with Lebanon on 27/11/15.

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