Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command

Jandarma Özel Asayiş Komutanlığı
Country Turkey
BranchGendarmerie General Command
TypePolice tactical unit
RoleDomestic Counter-Terrorism and Law Enforcement
SizeVaries
Part ofRespective municipality-level gendarmerie departments

The Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command (Turkish: Jandarma Özel Asayiş Komutanlığı) or JÖAK, is the police tactical unit of the Gendarmerie General Command. It has several missions which include counter-terrorist actions, underwater operations, hostage rescue, riot control, and other high-threat criminal actions.[1] Members of the unit receive extensive training at the Jandarma School at Foça and also from selected Army instructors. All teams companies work under the direction of the police and gendarmerie regions to which they are assigned, but can also receive tasking from the Jandarma Headquarters in Ankara.

Equipment

Handguns

Submachine Guns

Assault Rifles

Sniper Rifles

Shotguns

References

  1. ^ "Jandarmanın seçkin birliği JÖAK kapılarını açtı".
  2. ^ "Four masked policemen using two ladders to point a gun on passengers inside a bus". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.
  3. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  4. ^ "Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command Agent". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.
  5. ^ "Two uniformed guys shaking hands in a field, but don't want to be recognized". hizliresim.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2014.
  6. ^ "Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command Agent in public". Archived from the original on 2014-04-13.
  7. ^ "A policeman enters a building in green smoke and his colleagues are ready to shoot him". hizliresim.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2014.
  8. ^ Three masked policemen pointing a gun forward
  9. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  10. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  11. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  12. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  13. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  14. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  15. ^ a b "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  16. ^ "imgur: the simple image sharer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.