9th Corps (Turkey)

The 9th Corps, Turkish Land Forces, is an field corps. The corps headquarters is located in Erzurum, and the corps is part of the Third Army (Turkey). It is deployed along Turkey's eastern boundary.

Nigel Thomas's NATO Armies 1949-87, published in 1987, attributed the 4th, 8th, and 9th Corps to the Third Army.[1]

In 2004–05, Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu reported that the corps consisted of the:[2]

Corps Headquarters (Erzurum)
- 4th Armoured Brigade; 9th Infantry Brigade; 7th, 14th, 25th Mechanised Infantry Brigades; 48th, 51st Internal Security Brigades; 5th Infantry Rec Brigade; 15th Rec Train; Field Medical Rec.

References

Nigel Thomas (1987). NATO Armies 1949-87 (First ed.). Osprey Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-0850458220.
Diagram 6, 'Third Army Command 2004' in Chapter 5, 'Turkish Armed Forces' Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine in Umit Cizre (ed.), 'Democratic Oversight and Reform of the Security Sector in Turkey,' Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine LIT/DCAF 2008, ISBN 978-3-0858-0969-0.

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[1] Nigel Thomas (1987). NATO Armies 1949-87 (First ed.). Osprey Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-0850458220.

[2] Diagram 6, 'Third Army Command 2004' in Chapter 5, 'Turkish Armed Forces' Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine in Umit Cizre (ed.), 'Democratic Oversight and Reform of the Security Sector in Turkey,' Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine LIT/DCAF 2008, ISBN 978-3-0858-0969-0.