Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command

Jandarma Özel Asayiş Komutanlığı
Country	Turkey
Branch	Gendarmerie General Command
Type	Special forces
Role	Domestic Counter-Terrorism and Law Enforcement
Size	Varies
Part of	Respective municipality-level gendarmerie departments

The Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command (Turkish: Jandarma Özel Asayiş Komutanlığı) or shortly as JÖAK, is the domestic special forces 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

Sniper Rifles

Shotguns

Franchi SPAS-12^[16]

References

Special forces of the Turkish Armed Forces

Turkish Armed Forces	Special Forces

Turkish Land Forces	1st Commando Brigade 5th Commando Brigade

Turkish Naval Forces	Amphibious Marine Brigade Underwater Defence Underwater Offence

Turkish Air Force	Combat Search and Rescue

Turkish Gendarmerie	Gendarmerie Special Operations Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command

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