Thread by @MihajlovicMike

As per some sources, the following high ranking 🇹🇷 officers are directly involved in 🇦🇿 military operations:
• Maj Gen Bahtiyar Ersay - personally supervises the 🇦🇿General Staff .
•Maj Gen Göksel Kahya, air force

How many of high ranking officers are involved is unknown at the moment (for the public). Large scale operation such as a current war is something that need meticulous planning and preparations that can last many months. Rehearsal in the form of large exercise is mandatory.

Planing combine operation involves army, air force, AD, SF, logistics (to mention few). Multiple scenarios are "played" with the teams and the final rehearsal is usually large combine forces drill such as this one:
jamestown.org/program/azerba…
For Armenian it was a clear indication

Participation of Turkish advisers in Azerbaijan before and during the war is based on the on the undisclosed military and diplomatic sources-Russian, Greek, Armenian and French. If anybody expect the names of the sources, that is not how the intelligence community works.

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app 600 Turkish servicemen (incl 200 tac unit, and 50 officers-Nakhichevan. 90 advisers-Baku, 120-flight tac team- Gabala air base; 20 drone operators-Dollyar airport; 50 officers-Yevlakh airport; 50 officers-4th Army Corps; and 20 officers-Naval Base&Military Institute-Baku.

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According to Russian media, one of the sources is in the AZR ministry of defense.
vz.ru/world/2020/11/…