Turkey changes its military strategy owing to radical review of external threats. It refused from the concept of simultaneous war with two adversaries, which were the basis for the Armed Forces, reports CNN-Turk. «The new concept rests on reduction of the number of adversaries. It provides for one external war and one internal and planning the structure and number of the Armed Forces on that basis. Thus, the Army will be able to wage a war with a hostile state and rebuff terrorism inside the country,» CNN-Turk underscores.

Owing to adoption of a new concept, Turkey will have an army that numbers less, but is more mobile in the prospect. It will be able to move to crisis regions in short terms, the TV Channel notes. Turkey has the second largest army in the NATO that numbers some 800 thousand.