Polis Özel Harekat

Police Special Action (Polis Özel Harekât) or  Police Special Operation Teams (Polis Özel Operasyon Timleri)   is the special response unit of the General Directorate of Security, the General Directorate of Security.

History
Police Special Operation Teams was formed in 1983 under the Special Operations Department (Özel Harekât Şube Müdürlüğü) and Special Operations Group Authority (Özel Harekât Grup Amirliği) of the General Directorate of Security.

Now PÖH is under command of Special Operations Office (Özel Harekat Daire Başkanlığı).

İbrahim Şahin was head of the Department until forced to resign in 1996 over the Susurluk scandal. Ayhan Çarkın was a notable member of the department in the 1990s.

Tactics
This unit uses automatic and special weapons and rapid deployment tactics for exceptional circumstances, such as bank robberies, kidnappings, hostage rescues, etc. The nature of the unit is quite like the American SWAT or the German GSG 9, mostly specialises in counter-terrorism (CT) operations against forces and able to take operations on many environments including buses and planes.

Handguns

 * Yavuz 16
 * Sarsılmaz Kılınç 2000
 * Canik TP9

Shotguns

 * Akdal MKA 1919

Submachine guns

 * Heckler & Koch MP5
 * FN P90
 * IMI Uzi

Rifles

 * M4A1
 * M16
 * AKM
 * SIG SG 516
 * Steyr SSG 69
 * SSG08
 * Dragunov

Machine Guns

 * FN MINIMI

Vehicles

 * Otokar Akrep
 * Otokar Cobra
 * Nurol Ejder