Other important products include the Altay main battle tank, TF-2000 class AAW frigate, Milgem class corvette, TAI Anka UAV, Aselsan İzci UGV, T-155 Fırtına self-propelled howitzer, J-600T missile, T-129 attack helicopter, Roketsan UMTAS anti-tank missile, Roketsan Cirit laser-guided rocket, Panter Howitzer, ACV-300, Otokar Cobra and Akrep, FNSS Pars 6x6 and 8x8 APC, Nurol Ejder 6x6 APC, TOROS artillery rocket system, Bayraktar Mini UAV, ASELPOD, and SOM cruise missile.

*: Turkish Army, currently phasing out M110A2 in favor of T-155 Fırtına

The Turkish self-propelled howitzer T-155 Fırtına uses a 2-stroke diesel engine located at the rear right hull to supply power to fire control computers and turret hydraulics.

* T-155 Fırtına

Some of its key military export projects include T-155 Firtina self-propelled artillery for Turkey ; K11 air-burst rifle for United Arab Emirates ; Bangabandhu class guided-missile frigate for Bangladesh ; fleet tankers such as Sirius class for the navies of Australia, New Zealand, and Venezuela ; Makassar class amphibious assault ships for Indonesia ; and KT-1 trainer for Turkey and Indonesia.

Halil Ibrahim Fırtına ( born 1941 in Ordu, Turkey ) is a retired Turkish Air Force General and Commander of the Turkish Air Force.

From the late-17th century onwards, the Ottoman administration built many elegant bridges across the Fırtına River and its tributaries.

On 16 January 1878, the Turkish steamer Intibah became the first vessel to be sunk by self-propelled torpedoes, launched from torpedo boats operating from the tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin under the command of Stepan Osipovich Makarov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

The first recorded launch of torpedoes from a torpedo boat ( which itself was launched from a torpedo boat tender ) in an actual battle was by Russian admiral Stepan Makarov on January 16, 1878, who used self-propelled Whitehead's torpedoes against a Turkish armed ship Intibah during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

The first vessel sunk by self-propelled torpedoes was the Turkish steamer Intibah, on 16 January 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

At Gallipoli, the boys spend months waiting in a camp for any action, but are finally sent to the Helles, where they are up against " Asiatic Annie ", a 7-mile ranging Turk gun, and a well-placed Turkish gun that kills many of their friends.

He falls, but manages to get up and blow up the offending Turkish gun.

On 26 March 1917, the 53rd Division bore the brunt of the First Battle of Gaza where the three brigades, along with the 161st Brigade of the 54th Division, had to advance across exposed ground, withstanding shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire, to capture the Turkish fortifications.

* M48A5T1: Turkish M48 variant upgraded along similar lines to the M60A1, with an M68 105 mm main gun, passive night vision, M60A1 fire control system and an MTU diesel engine.

Turkish muskets, jezail s, carbine s and wall gun

The battles include a heroic stand led by Kilikian as well as Stephan ’ s sniping attack on a Turkish gun emplacement.

The men were under heavy machine gun fire from entrenched Turkish forces.

On departing from the ship's bay they were subject to the most ferocious enfilading machine gun fire from hidden Turkish defences.

The following day, the battalion's two machine gun crews sniped at the Turkish soldiers on Russell's Top, and Murray and his gunner continued fighting during the counterattack on 26 – 27 April, despite being wounded.

He earned his award by going ashore and single-handedly destroying a Turkish naval gun battery whilst a Lieutenant Commander with the fleet stationed off the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.

Keyes was asked by his superior, Admiral John de Robeck, to prepare an assault on the Turkish gun battery at Orkanieh ( also known as Achilles ' Tomb ), a position between Kum Kale and Yeni Shehr on the southern shore of the Dardanelles.

It also had a ship building industry. Then the Turkish president Solaiman Demirel when came to Chittagong in 1994 imported a gun ship from Sandwip port.

In his early career he and his bands contributed to the Turkish rock movement by combining traditional Turkish music with rock influences, which is still one of the main trends of Turkish popular music.

The results of early negotiations between the Greek and Turkish politicians resulted in a broad agreement in principle to reunification as a bicameral, bi-zonal federation with territory allocated to the Greek and Turkish communities within a united island.

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

According to Boztepe, his early days in Germany were difficult due to his Turkish heritage — he was a constant target for racial insults and, more often than not, verbal abuse would escalate into physical abuse.

In early 1988, the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers met at Davos, Switzerland, and later in Brussels.

Some dishes may be pre-Ottoman, only taking Turkish names later ; Ash and Dalby, for example, speculate that grape-leaf dolmathes were made by the early Byzantine period.

In 2007 Advertising agency TBWA decided to use the early 70s Moğollar song ' Garip Çoban ' ( meaning Poor Shepherd in Turkish ), composed by Murat Ses, in PlayStation 3 campaigns commercial.

Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks is scarce, but they take their Turkish name, Osmanlı ( corrupted in European languages as " Ottoman "), from the house of Osman I ( reigned ca.

Also during the 11th century, an early linguist of the Turkic languages, Mahmud al-Kashgari from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, published the first comprehensive Turkic language dictionary and map of the geographical distribution of Turkic speakers in the Compendium of the Turkic Dialects ( Ottoman Turkish: Divânü Lügati't-Türk ).

Apart from contributing to NATO, the Turkish Navy also contributes to the Black Sea Naval Co-operation Task Group, which was created in early 2001 by Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine for search and rescue and other humanitarian operations in the Black Sea.

* A motif of the tree of life is featured on Turkish 5 Kuruş coins, to be circulated in early 2009.

Turquerie, which began as early as the late 15th century, continued until at least the 18th century, and included both the use of " Turkish " styles in the decorative arts, the adoption of Turkish costume at times, and interest in art depicting the Ottoman Empire itself.

The prosperous nature of the economic climate, muted the negative influence of an early 1920s recession plus certain international conflicts such as the Polish-Soviet war, the Irish Civil War, the Turkish War of Independence and the initial phase of the Chinese Civil War.

It became an eparchy of the Eastern, or Byzantine Empire, continuing to speak Greek even after being joined by communities of Turkish language speakers in the early 2nd millennium.

* Something relating to or from the Ottoman Empire, the historic empire of Turkish people from the 13th to the early 20th century

In its early days the Turkish state promoted a rival Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, whose congregation, however, has remained limited.

During the early 1900s, the city of Van had eleven Armenian schools and ten Turkish.

In the early 18th century Europeans were first exposed to this type of music and interest would continue to build into the early 19th century when a vogue for Turkish marching bands swept through Europe.