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Turkish and forces
The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.
During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.
* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
* 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
* 1826 – The 10, 500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces.
During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.
The initial Bulgarian attack by First and Third Army defeated the Turkish forces, numbering some 130, 000, and reached the Sea of Marmara.
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.
* 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
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.
* 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
In the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as in all branches of the British Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Canadian Forces, Turkish Armed Forces, Swedish Armed Forces, Norwegian Armed Forces, and Hellenic Armed Forces, Russian and all former Soviet republic forces, hand salutes are only given when a cover ( protection for the head, usually a hat ) is worn.
The Turkish Armed Forces ( TAF ) ( or TSK ) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey.
Turkish forces invaded the island in two waves, occupying 37 % of the island's territory in the north-east and evicting 200, 000 Greeks from their territories, in an act described by many sources as ethnic cleansing.
The Turkish Army has its foundations in remnants of the Ottoman forces inherited after the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.
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.
They were held by Turkish forces until 23 January 1919.
Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam Yahya Muhammad strengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
* March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose, using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli, Libya, behind Turkish lines.
** The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon.
* September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir.
* October 7 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

Turkish and captured
He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.
* 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana ’ s improvised striptease at a nightclub captured Fellini ’ s imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, Moraldo in the City, with an all-night “ orgy ” at a seaside villa.
In 1484, the Turks invaded and captured Chilia and Cetatea Albă ( Akkerman in Turkish ), and annexed the shoreline southern part of Bessarabia, which was then divided into two sanjaks ( districts ) of the Ottoman Empire.
* 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.
During his reign he was determined to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and stop Turkish incursions into the Byzantine Empire, but in 1071 he was captured and his army routed at the Battle of Manzikert.
Unlike other parts of the TRNC-controlled areas of Cyprus, the Varosha section of Famagusta was fenced off by the Turkish army immediately after being captured and still remains in that state today.
In 1537, the famous Turkish corsair and Ottoman admiral Barbarossa captured Otranto and the Fortress of Castro, but the Turks were eventually repulsed from the city and the rest of Puglia.
On 14 September 1799 Kleber established a mounted company of Mamluk auxiliaries and Syrian Janissaries from Turkish troops captured at the siege of Acre.
The 1st / 6th Gurkhas, having landed at Cape Helles, led the assault during the first major operation to take out a Turkish high point, and in doing so captured a feature that later became known as " Gurkha Bluff ".
Having been captured, he was released from his imprisonment by a Turkish woman, who returned with him to Germany and became his wife, a papal dispensation allowing him to live with two wives at the same time ( see Reineck, Die Sage von der Doppelehe eines Grafen von Gleichen, 1891 ).
It was given by a local sailor who had been captured by Turkish pirates but who later managed to escape.
During the Great Turkish War Prokuplje was captured by Austrian troops and Serbian Militia in 1689 and burned down during their retreat in 1690, against the order of Antonije Znorić.
Hunyadi, at the head of the vanguard, crossed the Balkans through the Gate of Trajan, captured Niš, defeated three Turkish pashas, and, after taking Sofia, united with the royal army and defeated Sultan Murad II at Snaim ( Kustinitza ).
Ottomans captured the continental part of Zadar at the beginning of the 16th century and the city itself was all the time in the range of Turkish artillery.
Adding to the 33, 000 killed, the modern Turkish General Staff History notes that 28, 500 man survived captivity leaving only 10, 000 men unaccounted as possibly captured ( including the unspecified number of wounded ).
The pirate raids reached their peak during the reign of Charles V: the famous Turkish admirals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis captured the island in 1535 and 1553 for the Ottoman Empire, respectively.
The ghilman, personally responsible only to the Caliph, were to revolt several times during the 860's, killed 4 caliphs, and be replaced by the Mamluk system, based on captured Turkish children, trained and moulded within the Islamic lands.
The Ottoman Empire sought to suppress the League and they dispatched an army led by Turkish commander Dervish Pasha, that by April 1881 had captured Prizren and crushed the resistance at Ulcinj.
Meng gained favours by introducing Nu Er Huahua, a female dancer of ethnic Turkish origin to the Emperor whose beauty was said to have captured the ruler's full attention.
On the 20th of June 1768 Russia captured the fortress of Bar and the majority of the surviving confederates fled over the Turkish border.
Due to crowding in the tunnels that had been used for the attack, the reinforcements were sent via the open ground that had been in front of the old Turkish positions ; despite being behind the recently captured position, the ground was still subjected to heavy Turkish artillery and machine-gun fire, which was being poured down from positions in overwatch on the flanks.
Though a tactical victory for the Australians in terms of the fact that they remained in possession of the ground captured, and had managed to draw off some Turkish reinforcements nevertheless the wider repercussions of the attack at Lone Pine weighed heavily on the outcome at Chunuk Bair.

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