Fatih Sultan Mehmet Barracks

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Operation Althea Mehmet The Conqueror Barracks, 2005

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Barracks is the headquarters and barracks of the Turkish Armed Forces battalion in Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina under EUFOR (European Union Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Background

It was named after the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [6]

The command, which used the Zenica Steel Factory building as its headquarters, moved to its new building on 16 June 2005. [7] [8]

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