National Archive

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DIRECTORATE OF STATE ARCHIVES ​

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STATE ARCHIVIST OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE

Dahiye Karagülle​

 

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DIRECTORATE OF STATE ARCHIVES ​

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NATIONAL MILITARY DEPLOYMENT RECORDS

MILITARY OPERATIONS

Operations by the Turkish Armed Forces

Operation Determination

Operation Cleareye

Operations in association with Turkish Armed Forces

Operation Five Rings (joint security patrols)

Operation Beaming Beacon II (logistical)

Operation Protective Eagle (logistical)

Operations against the Turkish Armed Forces

Operation Sun (by Kurdistan Workers Party)

Operation Obsidian Dagger (by Polish Special Forces and Kurdish rebels)​

 

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DIRECTORATE OF STATE ARCHIVES ​

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NATIONAL HISTORY RECORDS


The Gathering Storm

Financial Woes, Deaf Ears

Summary

Türkiye's economy begins to collapse under the communist government.Secret breakfast meeting of senior economists, central bankers, and business leaders speak candidly about the regime's ideologically-driven fiscal destruction, including runaway deficits, tokenized currency schemes, the hollowing out of the Anatolian Tigers, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that has made sovereign default nearly inevitable. As the crisis deepens, Central Bank Governor Hafize Erkan makes the agonizing decision to liquidate $24 billion in foreign reserves to buy the economy a few more weeks of breathing room. At great risk to herself, Erkan must navigate a regime increasingly intolerant of dissent.

Shadows of Power

Summary

Rogue military intelligence operatives assassinate the head of the GMT security services, while the regime scrambles to identify the killers and Prime Minister Eda exploits the crisis to consolidate her own power at President Arslan's expense. In parallel, pro-democracy figures are being secretly recruited by the military's intelligence directorate. After the coup succeeds, a more formal and fraught dynamic emerges between Çiller and Cemal, as she confronts him over mass detentions, military tribunals, and surveillance.

Conspiracy and Resistance

The Red Republic: The Guardians of Atatürk

Summary

Follow a clandestine network of Turkish military generals as they secretly plot a coup to overthrow the country's communist government before it can fully dismantle the professional officer corps and hand military authority over to a loyalist Revolutionary Guard. Meeting in safe houses and remote farmhouses, the conspirators debate the timing, logistics, and moral weight of their plan, wrestling with whether to strike before public sentiment has fully turned against the regime or risk losing their window entirely. The operation, codenamed for September 9th, calls for simultaneous strikes across Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, and the southeastern provinces, seizing broadcast infrastructure, detaining the President and Prime Minister, and neutralizing the substantial Thai military presence stationed inside Türkiye. Beneath the tactical planning runs a deeper philosophical tension, between generals who see the coup as a necessary but temporary correction and those who fear that, like 1980, it could harden into something far worse than what it replaced.

The Shadow Wars

Summary

A covert MİT intelligence team executes three simultaneous raids on secret GMT detention facilities, rescuing imprisoned military and intelligence officers from black sites before the regime can silence them permanently. The operations are tense and violent, unfolding in darkness. In the aftermath, the same intelligence team begins piecing together evidence of a far more alarming threat, with the PKK plotting to strike the seat of Turkish government in what analysts describe as a decapitation strike, inspired in part by the bombing of the U.S. Capitol.

The Arrow and the Sickle

Summary

Mass pro-democracy street protests that erupt across Türkiye, centered on Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park, as hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens pour into the streets demanding freedom and the preservation of Atatürk's republic. Lines of riot police, confronted by a crowd armed with nothing but flags and chants, begins to break, officers dropping their shields and joining the protesters only for a party loyalist commander to violently force his men back into line. The defiant rhythm of the crowd, drums beating and voices rising through tear gas and night air, captures the fragile but ferocious spirit of a people refusing to be silenced.

The Crescent Begins to Rise

The Crescent and the Eagle

Summary

As the regime tightens its grip, arresting dissidents, raiding mosques, and suppressing the press, Ayşe Çiller navigates a dangerous web of Turkish military intelligence, surveillance, and covert American operatives who are secretly working to support the pro-democracy movement. The CIA, operating through a front organization called Democracy First USA, orchestrates a clandestine meeting between Çiller and former U.S. Ambassador Aiden Hawkins, during which he offers a $30 billion international aid package and covert support in exchange for her leadership of a democratic transition. Çiller, balancing her public role as an opposition politician with the private strain on her family and the moral weight of working with foreign intelligence services, cautiously accepts the offer while insisting that any outside help must remain invisible so the movement retains its legitimacy.

The Crescent and the Arrow

Summary

Ayşe Çiller works to shape what comes next, navigating the tension between pragmatic compromise with the military and her commitment to genuine democratic restoration. In a series of late-night meetings with fellow pro-democracy leader Abdullah Gül, held in secret to avoid the military's curfew, the two opposition leaders debate how far to trust the generals, with Gül pushing back on Çiller's willingness to engage the National Security Council and warning that armies rarely surrender power voluntarily. Çiller ultimately extracts key concessions from the military, including the lifting of political bans, the release of political prisoners like Erdoğan, simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections within ninety days, and a rejection of any military figure assuming the presidency.

Red Star Red Star

The Red Star of Ankara Falls

Summary

Follow along the coup itself unfolding in real time across Türkiye, beginning at 3:52 AM as army battalions, commando units, and helicopter assault teams simultaneously strike government facilities, bridges, airports, and broadcast infrastructure in Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir. The Prime Minister narrowly escapes capture in a chaotic firefight at her apartment, while President Arslan is driven into the presidential bunker as commandos overwhelm the palace grounds. State broadcaster TRT is seized, its anchor coerced into reading a military statement declaring martial law and the dissolution of the communist government, as tanks roll through city centers ordering civilians indoors. After hours of tense standoff, the coup generals, having secured the signatures of the Joint Chiefs and control of nearly every major city, offer President Arslan a negotiated surrender, promising fair trials and her personal safety in exchange for a televised address legitimizing the National Security Council's authority. Exhausted and isolated, Arslan accepts, delivering a nationally broadcast concession speech before being escorted to detention, bringing the People's Republic to an end.

Where Did they Go?

No Safe Haven: The Turkish Connection

Summary

Follow Turkish special forces, intelligence analysts, and an undercover operative embedded within a PKK cell as they race to understand and intercept a coordinated terrorist plot. Commando raids on safe houses in the mountains and a PKK cell in Mersin uncover disturbing evidence, kill lists targeting the entire Turkish government, detailed attack plans for crowded public spaces in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, and materials suggesting the plotters drew direct inspiration from the U.S. Capitol bombing. In parallel, a young Kurdish woman named Aynur is manipulated into agreeing to become a suicide bomber by a cell leader who weaponizes her grief over her brother's death, illustrating the human machinery behind the abstract threat. The intelligence picture is assembled painstakingly by a small field team piecing together burner phone data, bomb-maker signatures, supply chain fragments, and a mysterious figure known only as Christopher, while an undercover MIT operative embedded in the cell watches a reckless young recruit gun down a policeman in a market, blowing their surveillance operation and forcing a scramble to salvage their one remaining lead before the plot reaches its final stage.

The Goat and the Wolf

Summary

WIP.

Crimson Dawn on the Bosporus

Summary

WIP.