Third Army (Turkey)
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The Turkish Third Army is the country's largest army. In the days of the Soviet Union and the Third Army was stationed on the Caucasus border and its border in Thrace to counter any Warsaw Pact or Soviet attack. When the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union broke up the General Staff decided to send 120,000 men of the Third Army to the border with Iraq.
The Third Army is based in Erzincan and it patrols the borders with Armenia and Georgia. Some 300 men from the Third Army were sent alongside the United Nations troops in Somalia.
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