Turkey vs Ukraine

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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 Ukraine are the military forces of Ukraine. They are the main deterrent force against aggression against Ukraine's sovereign state. All military and security forces, including Armed Forces are under the control of the president of Ukraine. They are subject to supervision by a permanent Verkhovna Rada parlamentar commission. The Ukrainian Ground Forces, Ukrainian Air Force, Ukrainian Navy, Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, and Special Operations Forces make up the armed forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Navy has its own small Ukrainian Naval Infantry unit, along with its own Ukrainian Naval Aviation force. The Territorial Defense Forces are the Military Reserve Force and can be mobilized in large numbers for civilian volunteers in case of war. The Ukrainian Sea Guard, the coast guard service in Ukraine, is part of the Border Guard Service. It is not under the control of the navy. The 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine prompted the president to order the governors from the oblasts to form volunteer units under the government's Territorial Defense Forces. These units were initially funded mainly through donations and had little funding from the regional budgets.

Most of the territorial defense battalions were incorporated into the Ukrainian Ground Forces in November 2014. The National Guard of Ukraine is a paramilitary reserve unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After hostilities with Russia in 2014 Ukraine increased its armed force to 204,000 soldiers (46,000 civil servants). This does not include additional forces like the border guards (53,000), National Guard of Ukraine (60,000), or the security services. The size of Ukraine's armed forces is 246,445 (195,626 soldiers) and ranks second in the region behind the Russian Armed Forces. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2022 ordered a 100,000 increase in the force's size by 2025 and the end of conscription in 2024. Short-term intensive military training will replace conscription. In the past, military units from other countries have regularly participated in multilateral military exercises in Ukraine with Ukrainian forces. Many of these exercises were held under NATO's co-operation program Partnership for Peace.

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