Russian threats to stop Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea have just made Putin and very dangerous new enemy, writes Alp Sevimlisoy.
The Turkish Armed Forces are the supreme power within its sphere of influence – the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, North Africa and the Balkans.
The emergence of Turkish military prowess and its supremacy over foes such as the Russian Federation has accompanied the valiant campaign led by Ukrainian forces against the Kremlin. The Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Republic is a strength for Ankara, for the United States, for the United Kingdom and for NATO. A stronger Turkey means a stronger NATO.
The Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Navy possess full operational control and supremacy in the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. With regard to the Grain Deal, relations between Turkey and Ukraine have reached levels of a military pact.
The Turkish Republic, one of the most powerful member states of NATO, will be able to resume grain shipments together with Kyiv and the Kremlin would face the wrath of both Ankara and NATO if it dared to even cause minor disruption to any convoys.
The Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Navy possess full operational control and supremacy in the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. With regard to the Grain Deal, relations between Turkey and Ukraine have reached levels of a military pact.
The Turkish Republic, one of the most powerful member states of NATO, will be able to resume grain shipments together with Kyiv and the Kremlin would face the wrath of both Ankara and NATO if it dared to even cause minor disruption to any convoys.
Both the Turkish Armed Forces and the Turkish Military High Command (Genelkurmay as it is called) have achieved significant national security victories over the last seven years.
These include achievements in both the Middle East and North Africa where Turkish Air, Land and Naval forces appropriately countered both Russian and Russian-backed forces from Libya to Syria as well as those of Iran.
These victories established the current Turkish naval power we are seeing in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea – with the carrier TCG Anadolu complementing both NATO and Turkey’s arsenal across the vicinity.
The introduction of the Altay Main Battle Tank into the Turkish military inventory will also enable the Land Forces of Turkey to additionally push against Russian forces where necessary.
The Turkish Armed Forces stand steadfast to counter all external threats, be it those that seek to harm the rules-based established international order as per the Kremlin and Beijing or internationally outlawed groups.
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The leadership of the Turkish Armed Forces see its most indispensable allies as the United States, the United Kingdom and the State of Israel in terms of mutual defence.
In addition, Turkey has always, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the Republic during the Second World War and the Cold War, rightly identified and countered the Kremlin threat.
Currently, both the Turkish Military General Staff and the Presidency have brought Russia to heel and this shall now ‘crystallise’ with many nations formerly under the influence of Russia coming under the purview of the Crescent Moon & Star – as seen with the current progression of the Turkic Council into a Turkic Pact and the Mediterranean moving into a Turkish lead Mediterranean Union.
The Turkish Armed Forces themselves are more than an army for the Turkish populace, they are the vanguard of National Unity, Common Identity and Secularism as per the traditions of the founding father Atatürk.
The same tradition exists with regard to Turkey’s reach in the Black Sea. The grain agreement – which remains pivotal for many nation states across the world and their populaces – is something the Turkish Armed Forces have vowed to defend.
This topic of global consequence is now directly part of the national security of Turkey. As per these traditions, Turkey sees Ukraine as its direct military ally and as the Turkish Army, Turkish Air Force and Turkish Navy have become one of the most operationally active fighting forces in NATO, making themselves invaluable to the Transatlantic Alliance.
Cooperation between the two countries has encompassed military partnership, spanning the provision of Turkish naval corvettes, APCs and drones to Ukraine and shall further continue to become an intelligence and hypersonic capability alliance in unison with the United States and the United Kingdom whereby the provision of hypersonic missile capability to Turkey in partnership with the Turkish Armed Forces will be merged with the expansion of Five-Eyes.
Turkey, Israel and Ukraine will become members of Five-Eyes to ensure regional security pacts to swiftly prepare for the third age as we move into a heightened state of military readiness to ensure an ultimate victory against both the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China to Safeguard our way of life.
The British Armed Forces are also the route within which the United Kingdom continues to emerge as a pan-regional power post-Brexit by partnering with the Turkish Armed Forces.
With military ties flourishing over the past few years between both countries, the Royal Navy, The British Army and the Royal Air Force can project its influence abroad whilst attaining mutual security objectives securing both Britain’s national interests and that of allies such as the Armed Forces of the Republic of Turkey which is now a Pan-Continental power in its own right.
Both militaries are well placed to create joint VJTF orientated (Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) unites comprising of the troops of each in order to counter threats across the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and further by enabling the provision of F-35s and separately the allocation of Eurofighters to Ankara.
We shall see the continued ties for both countries spanning shared defence policies, cooperative intelligence functions and industry such that any foes of either will face the joint might of both nations.
Alp Sevimlisoy is an Istanbul-based Geopolitical Strategist, Defence Policy Adviser and National Security Expert on NATO’s role within the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Middle East.
Alp Sevimlisoy originally featured as per: Daily Express
