4th Corps (Turkey)

The 4th Corps is a field corps of the Turkish Land Forces. Its headquarters is in Ankara.

In 1974 it appears to have been part of the Second Army. Nigel Thomas's NATO Armies 1949-87, published in 1988, attributed the 4th Corps, 8th, and 9th Corps to the Third Army.[1]

In accordance with NATO’s new strategy in the early 1990s, Turkey agreed to commit forces to NATO’s ACE Rapid Reaction Corps. 'Therefore, the decision was made to create a new division. Thus, the old 1st Infantry Division which had been abolished many years ago was reactivated and renamed as 1 TU Mech Inf Div and attached to 4 TU Corps on 30 November 1993.’[2]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas 1988, 39.
  2. ↑ http://www.arrc.nato.int/divisions/1tudiv.htm
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