Gendarmerie General Command

An Ankara prosecutor on Sept. 4 issued detention warrants for some 25 officers with the Gendarmerie General Command, according to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Minister of Internal Affairs Carmen Dan said on Tuesday that a military prosecutor had been supervising the entire coordination of the gendarmes' intervention in the evening of August 10 at the anti-government rally in Victoriei Square.

The IntMin also rejected allegations that she had been herself involved in coordinating the actions of the Romanian Gendarmerie.

For the first time in 55 years, a gendarmerie commando school and training center in Turkey's Aegean province of İzmir saw a woman trainee graduated ranking first on June 29.

Turkish Gendarmerie Command has tightened traffic control on the roads during the three-day Eid al-Fitr or Ramadan holiday, deploying thousands of officers equipped with drones, helicopters and smart glasses.

Detention warrants were issued in the capital Ankara for 25 soldiers on March 13 as part of a probe to uncover the Fethullahist Terror Organization’s (FETÖ) structuring in the General Commandership of Gendarmerie, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The number of female officers and non-commissioned officers in the Turkish Gendarmerie Command will be increased by 10 percent as part of a move to establish more balance between men and women in the command.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım is scheduled to come together with land, naval, air and gendarmerie force commanders separately.

Security forces detained three Iranians early Sept. 5 for laying a steel cable along the Turkish-Iranian border in the eastern province of Ağrı, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The Turkish security forces will hold large-scale operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the upcoming winter, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said, adding that "we will never stop moving" in the months to come. 

The Special Forces Commander Lieutenant Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, who commanded anti-coup forces during the July 15 attempt and the Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria, was reshuffled to command the Second Army Corps in the western region of Gelibolu.

The appointments that had not come into effect with the Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) were announced in the Official Gazette on Aug. 19.