The Turkish Activity Drive Command in Somalia (STGK) of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) helps Somalia handle its want for certified navy personnel.
After the signing of a framework settlement on navy training, technical and scientific cooperation between Türkiye and Somalia in 2010, the relations between the 2 international locations accelerated with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s go to to Somalia on Aug. 19, 2011.
The Anatolia Barracks, the place the STGK nonetheless serves, was opened in Somalia on Sept. 30, 2017 by then-Chief of Employees Gen. Hulusi Akar following a Cupboard choice.
On the barracks on the coast of the Indian Ocean, help efforts and work continues to assist and enhance the group, training, coaching, navy infrastructure and logistics programs of the Somali safety forces.
The nation’s officers and sergeants are educated on the web site.
The STGK’s Navy Faculty Command performs an essential function in serving to meet the necessity for certified personnel in Somalia.
Somalis who’ve accomplished their highschool training, meet the bodily and well being necessities and move the examination and interview are admitted to the academy as navy college students after finishing adjustment coaching.
Officers and sergeants obtain six months of accelerated Turkish training at college. Afterward, sergeants are educated for one 12 months and officers for 2 years. Along with programs similar to physics, chemistry, arithmetic, pc science, navy historical past, navy geography and operations administration, college students are additionally given mechanics, marksmanship and taking pictures, and fight layouts coaching.
On the finish of the 12 months, a continental internship coaching is held on the barracks in cooperation with Somali troops. The coaching is offered by Turkish navy personnel and Turkish-speaking Somali troopers.
Officers from the college graduate with the rank of “lieutenant” and sergeants with the rank of “workers sergeant.” With the Turkish preparatory class beginning subsequent 12 months, the coaching shall be two years for sergeants and three years for officers.
‘African Eagles’
On the STGK Unity Coaching Group Command, which noticed off its first graduates in 2018, the troopers obtain fundamental navy coaching for 3 months from Turkish navy personnel and Somali troopers who’ve beforehand graduated from navy faculties inside the physique of STGK.
The sergeants who efficiently full the course then bear commando coaching in Isparta for 10 weeks, and people who are profitable are rewarded with a commando badge and start their obligation within the Somali Nationwide Army. As well as, weapons, autos and tools are additionally offered by Türkiye.
The “African Eagles” fashioned by these applications play an essential function in guaranteeing safety within the nation.
STGK is at all times with Somali Armed Forces
In his assertion, STGK Cmdr. Brig. Gen. Hakan Dinçer said that the command began its operations on the Anatolia Barracks on Sep. 30, 2017, inside the scope of the bilateral agreements signed between Türkiye and Somalia.
“In STGK, recognized in Somalia as Camp TURKSOM, officers and sergeants are educated within the Navy Faculty Command, and commando battalions are educated within the Unity Coaching Command, along with the personnel of the Somali Armed Forces.
“The officers and sergeants who graduated from right here proceed their training in classroom faculties and coaching middle instructions in Türkiye, after which return to Somalia and begin their duties of their new models. Throughout the scope of unit coaching, commando battalions which have accomplished their fundamental navy coaching are despatched to Isparta for commando coaching, and after their coaching, they be part of the ranks of the Somali Armed Forces. Other than these trainings, refresher trainings are given to the troops and personnel who’ve accomplished their coaching and served within the continents, each within the Anatolia Barracks and in different barracks, and when the necessity for added coaching arises, are given in Somalia or in Türkiye. We’re at all times with the pleasant and brotherly individuals of Somalia and the Somali Armed Forces,” Dinçer mentioned.
