Gendarmerie Search and Rescue Battalion Command

Teams are located in Istanbul, Ankara and Erzurum. They sometimes help to fight disasters with the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency in neighboring countries.

Established to intervene in the area of responsibility and to find missing persons, the largest team in JAK and it is slowly becoming a separate organization.

Teams are located in 9 Provincial gendarmerie HQ ;(19 units)

• Ankara-Güvercinlik (4 units for drowning incidents in lakes, rivers and dams of Central Anatolia Region )
• Adana-Yüreğir, Adana Province
• Antalya –Muratpaşa, Mediterranean Region, Turkey mostly for Manavgat Dam area.
• Erzurum – Palandöken, Eastern Anatolia Region
• Diyarbakır-Yenişehir, Southeastern Anatolia Region for Atatürk Dam & Keban Dam area.
• İstanbul-Sarıyer (2 units), Marmara Region
• İzmir-Buca, Aegean Region
• Van-Edremit for Lake Van area[7]

The team has also Zero Waste Blue Project.[8][9]

Established to provide safety and security in winter tourism centers, evacuate patients/injured people in adverse weather and terrain, and preventive arm enforcement in mountainous/forest areas where extreme sports are performed. Tasks include:

• Intervene in incidents that occur in regions where there is no possibility of motor transfer in difficult nature and terrain conditions or where pedestrian transfer conditions are difficult,
• Providing safety and security services on the runways where winter tourism is performed, and assisting domestic and foreign tourists who are lost and injured,
• Reaching and evacuating casualties in accidents where mountaineering sports take place,
• To reach and evacuate the victims in natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, avalanches and landslides.

Teams are located in 17 Provincial gendarmerie HQ; ( 23 units)

• Antalya-Saklıkent National Park,
• Ardahan-Yalnızçam Mountains,
• Bolu – Kartalkaya,
• Bursa – Uludağ mountain (3 units), (Uludağ National Park Turkey the largest ski resort in the country)
• Erzurum – Palandöken Mountain(2 units),
• Erzincan –Ergan,
• Hakkari – Mergabütan,
• Kocaeli-Kartepe,
• Isparta-Mount Davraz ,
• Kars – Sarıkamış Mountains National Park (2 units), (see also Battle of Sarikamish)
• Kastamonu – Ilgaz Mountains (2 units),
• Kayseri – Mount Erciyes (2 units),
• Kahramanmaraş-Yedikuyular,
• Muğla-Fethiye,
• Niğde – Çamardı,
• Rize – Çamlıhemşin,
• Tunceli-Ovacık

Personnel in charge receive training in combating severe cold, skiing training, snowmobiling and over-snow vehicle training, first aid training and mountaineering training.[15][16][17]

Performs search and rescue in natural and unnatural disasters, illegal human smuggling and avalanche search in winter tourism areas with the help and support of Search and rescue dogs. In the staff of Dog units; There is an Expert Gendarmerie private soldier and an Expert officer which includes a dog. It was put into operation on 18 December 2003 in Nevsehir. Note that other Gendarmerie Dog groups are not included.[22]

This was formed after the ikitelli radioactive waste accident located in Meram/Konya.[24]