The Abbassid troops hold to Fustat and Berber cavalry suffers heavy loses to the Turkish archers.

However, Kilij Arslan's horse archers could not penetrate the line of defense set up by the Crusader knights, and the main body under Bohemund arrived to capture the Turkish camp on July 1.

The Turkish mounted archers attacked in their usual style-charging in, shooting their arrows, and quickly retreating before the crusaders could counterattack.

Turkish armies included archers until about 1591 ( they played a major role in the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ), and flight archery remained a popular sport in Istanbul until the early 19th century.

Category: Turkish women's archers

Category: Turkish women's archers

Category: Turkish archers

Category: Turkish women's archers

The stone monument was destroyed during an earthquake, but in January 2008 reconstruction of the monument had begun with the consent of the Turkish government.

This refers to the Turkish governor of Athens, Tzisdarakis, who is recorded by a chronicler as having " destroyed one of Hadrian's columns with gunpowder " in order to re-use the marble to make plaster for the mosque that he was building in the Monastiraki district of the city.

The party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet.

12 February 1917, Beduins loyal to the British destroyed a Turkish railroad near the port of Wajh, derailing a Turkish locomotive.

Turkish authorities destroyed most of the medieval Bulgarian fortresses to prevent rebellions.

On 30 November 1853, Russian Admiral Nakhimov caught the Turkish fleet in the harbor at Sinope and destroyed the Turkish fleet.

During the 16th century, Turkish naval attacks destroyed Maó, and the then capital, Ciutadella, before Turkish settlement took place on some of the island.

The original 16th-century manuscript was destroyed in 1915 during the Turkish massacres of Assyrian Christians.

Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation.

Of the four Tridents stranded at Nicosia International Airport., one was destroyed by Turkish Air force rocket fire and wreckage of its tail still exists at that airport and one was damaged by small arms fire remaining in the same position today as it did in 1974 slowly decaying.

However, the Chinese Muslim 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) defeated the Turkic Muslim Uyghur and Kirghiz armies of the Turkish Islamic Republic, and destroyed the Republic during the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ), Battle of Yangi Hissar and Battle of Yarkand.

The village was almost destroyed in the Turkish assault.

The Tabor workhouse nearly collapsed after just five years owing to the lack of government funding, and was then destroyed two years later during the Turkish invasion.

Year 1811 he become Voivoda of the Timocka Krajina and he was sent to Negotin, in Timocka Krajina In 1813, a detachment of Turkish cavalry attacked him at village of Bukovče where Veljko destroyed them.

The serpent heads were destroyed as late as the end of the 17th Century, as many Ottoman miniatures show they were intact in the early centuries following the Turkish conquest of the city.

The attack was beaten back by Turkish gunfire which destroyed one torpedo boat and the remaining boats withdrew, leaving the enemy ironclads intact.

Just outside of the city of Chesme on June 24, 1770, twelve Russian ships engaged twenty-two Turkish vessels and destroyed them with the use of fire ships.

A Turkish invasion in 1659 again led to the city being burnt down and destroyed, and the locals being taken captive.

With short interruptions during the anti-Ottoman rebellions of Vlad III the Impaler and Michael the Brave, destroyed by Iancu Jianu's hajduks in their campaign against Osman Pazvantoğlu and his successor ( 1809 ) and never rebuilt under Turkish rule, Turnu, like the other two kazas, was due to be returned to Wallachia through the 1826 Akkerman Convention-and was ultimately ceded in 1829, through the Treaty of Adrianopole.

In Armenia, the 7, 000-strong contingent of Count Gudovich destroyed the Turkish force of 20, 000 at Arpachai ( June 18 ).

His orders were to enforce a peaceful solution on the situation in Greece, but Codrington was unfortunately not known for his diplomacy, and on 20 October 1827 he destroyed the Turkish and Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Navarino while in command of a combined British, French and Russian fleet.

* November 3 – Battle of Niš: John Hunyadi and crusader army, defeated the Ottoman Turks and captured city of Niš ; Skanderbeg left the Turkish camp and went to Albania.

The side paintings, believed to be by William Kent, depict double cornucopias which form crusader tents accompanied by Turkish prisoners with arms and armour positioned in various postures of captivity.

Not only did they fail to open the Turkish lines, they were unable to return to the main crusader army and had to take refuge in a nearby stronghold.

The turcopoles employed by the crusader states were not necessarily Turkish or mixed-race mercenaries, but many were probably recruited from Christianized Seljuqs, or from Syrian Eastern Orthodox Christians under crusader rule.

The closest record to a first-person account was made by Johann Schiltberger, a German follower of a Bavarian noble, who witnessed the battle at the age of 16 and was captured and enslaved for 30 years by the Turks before returning home, at which time he wrote a narrative of the battle estimating the crusader strength at the final battle at 16, 000, though he also estimated Turkish forces as a wildly inflated 200, 000.

The Crusade itself, entering Anatolia, ended disastrously ; after passing Heraclea in September, Welf's Bavarians — like other crusader contingents — were ambushed and massacred by the Turkish troops of Kilij Arslan I, the Seljuq Sultan of Rûm.

* 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.

After the Ottoman conquest of Greece, the Parthenon was used as the garrison headquarters of the Turkish army, and the Erechtheum was turned into the Governor's private Harem.

New Turkish forces landed at Bulair and Şarköy but after heavy fighting they were crushed and overthrown by the newly formed 4th Bulgarian army under the command of General Stiliyan Kovachev.

Çevik Bir is a retired Turkish army general.

For the loss of some 2, 000 dead and wounded, Eugene inflicted approximately 25, 000 casualties on his enemy – including the Grand Vizier, Elmas Mehmed Pasha – annihilating the Turkish army.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

At the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Polish King John III Sobieski, decisively defeated a large Turkish army, ending the western colonial Ottoman advance and leading to the eventual dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

Finally, in August 1922, the Turkish army shattered the Greek front, and took Smyrna.

Conquered by the Ottoman army in the first half of the 15th century, the region remained a part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years, during which it gained a substantial Turkish minority, especially in the religious sense of Muslim ; some of those Muslims became so through conversions.

Ottoman defeats in the war caused Mehmed III to take personal command of the army, the first sultan to do so since Suleyman I. Mehmed III's armies conquered Eger in 1596 and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Keresztes ( Turkish for Battle of Hacova ) during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle.

* 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi ( Nagorno Karabakh ).

This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.

* 1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.

Amanullah's Turkish advisers suggested the king retire the older officers, men who were set in their ways and might resist the formation of a more professional army.

The Ottoman army battling the Ottoman – Habsburg wars | Habsburgs in present-day Slovenia during the Great Turkish War.

It said that the army is a party to " arguments " regarding secularism ; that Islamism ran counter to the secular nature of the Turkish Republic, and to the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

) The army of the government of the GNA won the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

In 2010, the Turkish Army had around 402, 000 active personnel and is the second largest army of NATO ( after the United States ).< ref name = oymen >

After the destruction of the Greek forces in Asia Minor and the expulsion of Ottoman sultan by the Turkish army under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Ankara-based government of the Turkish national movement i. e. Turkey, rejected the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Ottoman Empire.

** Turkish authorities begin Operation Hawk, an army offensive against rebels from the Kurdish Worker's Party in southeastern Turkey.

* May 4 – The leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish with the Turkish army.

** Cemal Gürsel, Turkish army officer and President ( d. 1966 )

* October 26 – Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave again defeats the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasha, pushing them on the right side of the Danube.