Editing Turkish Armed Forces (section)

===Cross-border operations in the Middle East===

====Syria====
[[File:Joseph Dunford, Hulusi Akar and Valery Gerasimov 170307-D-PB383-021 (33179920601).jpg|thumb|left|Marine Corps Gen. [[Joseph Dunford Jr.]] (left) chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, participates in a trilateral meeting with Gen. [[Hulusi Akar]] of the Turkish army (center) and Gen. [[Valery Gerasimov]] of the Russian army in Antalya, Turkey, March 6, 2017. The three chiefs of defense are discussing their nations’ operations in northern Syria.]]

The Turkish Armed Forces have carried out major military operations against [[ISIS]], [[YPG]] and the [[Assad Regime]] in Syria; [[Operation Euphrates Shield]] in 2016, [[Operation Olive Branch]] in 2018, [[Operation Peace Spring]] in 2019 and [[Operation Spring Shield]] in 2020. As a result of these operations, regions as [[Jarabulus]], [[Battle of al-Bab|Al-Bab]], [[Tell Abyad]], [[Ras al-Ayn]] and [[Afrin, Syria|Afrin]] were captured by Rebel Armed forces of the [[Syrian Interim Government]] and Turkish Armed Forces.

The Turkish Armed Forces implemented new tactics and techniques like the mass use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Thanks to these drone raids, which were used in coordination with electronic warfare, systems such as the [[Pantsir]] and [[Buk missile system|Buk]] used by [[Ba'athist Syria]] were neutralized. International relations and policy think tanks as the [[Middle East Institute]], [[Institute for the Study of War]], [[Rand Corporation]], [[Jamestown Foundation]]<ref name="Middle East Institute June 18, 2020">{{Cite web|first=Gregory|last=Waters|title=The Syrian Regime's Combat Losses in Spring 2020, and What Lies Ahead|date=18 June 2020|url=https://www.mei.edu/publications/syrian-regimes-combat-losses-spring-2020-and-what-lies-ahead|access-date=2020-10-18|publisher=[[Middle East Institute]]|language=en|archive-date=18 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250118195553/https://www.mei.edu/publications/syrian-regimes-combat-losses-spring-2020-and-what-lies-ahead}}</ref><ref name="Turkey Commits to Idlib2020">{{cite news | last1=Cafarella| first1=Jennifer| last2=Dunford| first2=John| last3=Land| first3=Michael | last4=Wallace| first4=Blane| title=Turkey Commits to Idlib| website=[[Institute for the Study of War]] | date=2020-03-18 | url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/turkey-commits-idlib | access-date=2024-12-25| archive-date=14 January 2025| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250114050458/https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/turkey-commits-idlib}}</ref><ref name="randcor2020">{{cite web | last1 = Parachini | first1 = John V. | last2 = Wilson | first2 = Peter A. | url = https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2020/07/drone-era-warfare-shows-the-operational-limits-of-air.html | title = Drone-Era Warfare Shows the Operational Limits of Air Defense Systems | publisher = [[RAND Corporation]] | date = 2 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231210155258/https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2020/07/drone-era-warfare-shows-the-operational-limits-of-air.html | archive-date = 10 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="turkeysdroneblitz">{{cite web | last= Kasapoglu | first= Can | title= Turkey's Drone Blitz Over Idlib | publisher = [[Jamestown Foundation]] | date =17 April 2020| url = https://jamestown.org/program/turkeys-drone-blitz-over-idlib/ | access-date =14 March 2025| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250307013629/https://jamestown.org/program/turkeys-drone-blitz-over-idlib/ | archive-date = 7 March 2025}}</ref> and many military analysts stated that the Turkish Armed Forces have made significant changes in military doctrines and have created a new military approach based on drones and electronic warfare with the military operations it has carried out or helped to carry out in regions such as [[Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war|Syria]], [[Turkish intervention in Libya (2020–present)|Libya]], [[List of Turkish operations in northern Iraq|Iraq]] and [[Second Nagorno-Karabakh War|Karabakh]]. The developments it has made in drone technology in particular have been interpreted as Türkiye's defense industry and armed forces becoming among the world's leading forces.<ref name="The Turkey Analyst 2020-03-25">{{cite news | last=Tanchum| first=Michaël |  title= Turkey's In-between State of War and Peace with Russia | website=The Turkey Analyst| date=2020-03-25 | url=https://www.turkeyanalyst.org/publications/turkey-analyst-articles/item/636-turkeys-in-between-state-of-war-and-peace-with-russia.html | access-date=2024-12-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Turkey shoots down two Syrian warplanes, destroys armor, kills troops as conflict escalates| newspaper=Washington Post| date=2020-03-01 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-shoots-down-two-syrian-warplanes-in-growing-conflict/2020/03/01/d0fd189a-5bbe-11ea-ac50-18701e14e06d_story.html | access-date=2024-12-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Turkey drone success has 'elevated' it in the world, says Fukuyama
|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210413-turkey-drone-success-has-elevated-it-in-the-world-says-fukuyama/ |access-date=9 January 2025 |publisher=Middle East Monitor |date=13 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Web source |url= https://newlinesinstitute.org/state-resilience-fragility/turkeys-high-stakes-in-northwest-syria/|date=12 March 2020 |title= Turkey’s High Stakes in Northwest Syria| website=[[New Lines Institute]] |accessdate= December 27, 2024|first=Charles|last=Lister|archive-date=16 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250116051544/https://newlinesinstitute.org/state-resilience-fragility/turkeys-high-stakes-in-northwest-syria/}}</ref>