Military ranks of Turkey
Rütbeler
The military ranks of Turkey are the military insignia used by the Turkish Armed Forces.
Special insignia
The Chief of the Turkish General Staff is allowed to wear special insignia.
Turkish Land Forces
Officer ranks
Other ranks
Turkish Air Forces
Officer ranks
Other ranks
Turkish Naval Forces
Officer ranks
Note: Commodores in the Turkish navy are not given special ranks or insignia. In the Turkish navy a commodore is not a rank but a position (usually group commander). Commodores almost always have the rank of Captain (Albay), but can fly their special pennants and wear special ribbons.
Tuğamiral (Rear Admiral/Lower Half) is the lowest admiral's rank. Their shoulderboards are covered in gold lace, and have a silver garland with swords crossed in the middle (General's mark) and a silver five pointed star above that. All admirals also wear two rows of leaves on their caps.
Tümamiral (Rear Admiral/Upper Half) wears the same shoulderboards as Tuğamirals, but with two silver stars.
Koramiral (Vice Admiral): There are usually six Koramirals in the whole navy.
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