Tactical Mobilisation Group

Special Warfare Department
Active1952–1965
Country Turkey
BranchTurkish Army
TypeSpecial operations

The Tactical Mobilisation Group (TMG, Turkish: Seferberlik Taktik Kurulu) was the special operations unit of the Turkish Army. It was founded in 1952 as part of NATO's efforts to establish a Counter-Guerrilla force in Turkey as the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio.[1] It was disbanded in 1965, with special operations taken over by the new Special Warfare Department (Turkish: Özel Harp Dairesi).

In the 2000s it was revealed that the 1955 Istanbul pogrom was engineered by the TMG.[2][3] Turkish Land Forces General Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu, the right-hand man of General Kemal Yamak[4] who organised the Counter-Guerrilla through the Tactical Mobilization Group, proudly reminisced about his involvement in the riots, calling the TMG "a magnificent organization".[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Turkey's Killing Machine: The Contra-Guerrilla Force, Serdar Celik, in Kurdistan Report. No.17. February/March 1994
  2. ^ Birand, Mehmet Ali. “The shame of Sept. 6–7 is always with us Archived 2012-12-09 at archive.today,” Turkish Daily News, 7 September 2005.
  3. ^ Ergil, Doğu. “Past as present Archived 2012-12-09 at archive.today,” Turkish Daily News 12 September 2005.
  4. ^ Dündar, Can (2007-04-01). "Özel Harp'çinin tırmanış öyküsü". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  5. ^ Hür, Ayşe (2008-09-07). "6-7 Eylül'de devletin 'muhteşem örgütlenmesi'". Taraf (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  6. ^ Ergil, Doğu (2008-09-17). "The dark side of nationalism: Sept. 6-7 incident". Today's Zaman. Archived from the original on November 23, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  7. ^ Cemal A. Kalyoncu, Aksiyon, 31 March 2001, Sivil general