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Ali Nazmi Çora
Born1947 (age 78–79)
Istanbul, Turkey
OccupationRetired military officer, academic, author
LanguageTurkish, English
NationalityTurkish
EducationKuleli Military High School

Turkish Military Academy

Army War College

National Security and Armed Forces Academy

University of Balochistan (MA)

Marmara University (PhD)
GenreMilitary strategy, geopolitics, history, international relations
Notable worksÇekiç Güç: Tarihimizdeki Kara Leke

Armenian Genocide a Big Lie

Tarih Türklerle Başlar

Ali Nazmi Çora (born 1947) is a Turkish retired Senior Staff Colonel, academic, researcher, and author. Following a three-decade career in the Turkish Armed Forces, which included command positions within North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) structures and international operational deployments, Çora transitioned into civilian academia. He received his PhD from Marmara University and served as a lecturer at the Turkish Army War College, at San Ignacio University in the United States, and is currently an assistant professor at Onbeş Kasım Cyprus University.[1]

As a researcher, Çora has written on geopolitics, digital economics, and alternative Turkish history. His military texts analyze the strategic consequences of the 1990s Kurdish conflict, specifically the role of the United States in Operation Provide Comfort (known in Turkey as Çekiç Güç).[2] In 2020, Çora became the subject of a national media debate in Turkey regarding platform content moderation when his English-language book Armenian Genocide a Big Lie was permanently removed from Amazon following reader complaints about historical revisionism.[3]

Early life and education

Ali Nazmi Çora was born in 1947 in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed his primary education at Moda Elementary School.[4] In 1959, he enrolled as a cadet at the Selimiye Military Middle School. Upon completing his middle school studies, Çora advanced to the Kuleli Military High School. He graduated from Kuleli in 1965 and matriculated into the Turkish Military Academy (Kara Harp Okulu), receiving his commission as a Signal Lieutenant (Muharebe Teğmeni) in 1967.[5] He is married with Nedret Cora since 1970 and his only son, Hakan Cora is a professor of Business and International Relations and profound academician as a Dean of Political and Social Sciences at Onbes Kasim Kibris University in Nicosia, TRN Cyprus.

He pursued advanced staff education, gaining admission to the Turkish Army War College (Kara Harp Akademisi) and graduating as a Staff Officer in 1978. He later attended the National Security and Armed Forces Academy (Milli Güvenlik ve Silahlı Kuvvetler Akademisi), graduating in 1986. Çora also studied computer science at the University of Maryland in the United States and participated in specialized training programs at NATO schools located in Germany.[4]

Military career

Çora served in the Turkish Armed Forces for thirty years, reaching the rank of Senior Staff Colonel (Kurmay Kıdemli Albay) before his voluntary retirement in 1997.

During the Cold War, he was assigned to the NATO Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH) headquarters in Naples, Italy, where he served a three-year tour of duty involving regional defense coordination. He was subsequently deployed to the 5th Corps Headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. During his time there, he attended the Pakistan Command and Staff College in Quetta and completed a civilian master's degree in War Art at the University of Balochistan.[4]

Operation Provide Comfort (Hammer Force)

Between November 1994 and June 1995, Çora served as the Turkish Co-Commander of the Military Coordination Center (MCC) for Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq.[4] The operation, referred to in Turkey as Çekiç Güç (Hammer Force), was an international military mission initiated to enforce a no-fly zone and provide humanitarian relief following the 1991 Gulf War.

The MCC, headquartered in Zakho, required the synchronization of military objectives between United States forces, the Turkish military, and local Kurdish political factions. Operating alongside American and European counterparts, Çora developed a critical assessment of Western strategic intentions, later arguing in his published works that the operation inadvertently facilitated the operational capacity of militant groups against Turkey.[6]

While on active duty, Çora also served as an instructor at the Army War College and the National Security and Armed Forces Academy, delivering specialized curricula covering geopolitics and international peacekeeping operations.[4]

Academic and civilian career

Çora voluntarily retired from the Turkish Armed Forces in 1997 and enrolled in a doctoral program at the Institute of Turkic Studies at Marmara University in Istanbul. In 2000, he earned a Ph.D. with research focusing on Turkey's integration with Western security architectures.[7]

Following the completion of his doctorate, Çora relocated to the United States, securing a faculty position within the Department of Business at San Ignacio University in Miami. He is currently an assistant professor at Onbeş Kasım Cyprus University.[1] He also retained consultative roles within the Turkish national security establishment, serving as an honorary member of the Turkish Military History Commission (TATK) and acting as an external national security expert for the Strategic Research Center (SAREM).[4]

Research interests and geopolitical theories

Digital economics and regional development

Çora has conducted research on digital disparities within Turkey, including a demographic study examining e-commerce adoption in Diyarbakır. The research analyzed barriers to broadband infrastructure, economic inequality, and digital literacy, concluding that e-commerce usage in the region was heavily skewed toward younger, higher-income groups. The paper recommended regional marketing strategies to bridge the gap between Diyarbakır and broader European Union digital averages.[8]

Analysis of Operation Provide Comfort

The most widely cited aspect of Çora's research focuses on his analysis of the 1990s Kurdish conflict, published in his book Çekiç Güç: Tarihimizdeki Kara Leke (Hammer Force: A Black Stain in Our History).[6] He argues that Operation Provide Comfort created a deliberate vacuum of authority in Northern Iraq, serving as an exercise in nation-building that fractured confidence between Turkey and the United States. His writings on this subject have been integrated into independent military historiography. In 2023, the United States Marine Corps University Press published Boots and Suits, which explicitly cites Çora's book to illustrate the anxieties held by the Turkish military establishment regarding American regional diplomacy.[2]

Turkverse and civil society organizations

Çora is a proponent of Eurasian strategic alignment. In self-published works, he calculates the global demographic of Turkic peoples and theorizes that globalization poses a threat to independent national structures, advocating for a cohesive political and economic bloc to consolidate the power of Turkic states.[9] A complementary theme in his writing is a skepticism of Western civil society initiatives; in his 2008 book İçimizdeki Şeytanlar - Sivil Toplum Örgütleri (The Devils Among Us - NGOs), he argues that non-governmental organizations are sometimes utilized to covertly manage independent states and engineer public consent.[10]

Reception and controversy

In 2015, Çora self-published an English-language book titled Armenian Genocide a Big Lie through the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing platform.[3] The text aligned with the official historiography of the Republic of Turkey, which denies that the systematic massacres and deportations of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted a genocide.[3]

In June 2020, the book became the center of a concerted content moderation campaign. Shunt Jarchafjian, a reader who subsequently detailed the event in the diaspora publication Asbarez, sent a direct email to Amazon executives stating that searches for literary works regarding the events of 1915 routinely surfaced books by "historical revisionists."[11] On June 30, 2020, Amazon confirmed the permanent removal of the title. Amazon did not release a public statement detailing the specific policy violations.[3]

The removal of the book sparked a debate in the Turkish media regarding corporate censorship, historical interpretation, and freedom of publication. Independent news outlets, such as Bianet and T24, reported the incident factually, providing the timeline of the emails and framing the event as a notable shift in platform governance regarding historical disputes.[3] Conversely, nationalist media organizations reacted with intense hostility. The daily newspaper Yeniçağ aggressively condemned the American corporation's decision, framing the removal as an affront to Turkish national identity.[12]

Selected works

  • Çekiç Güç: Tarihimizdeki Kara Leke (2008 / 2021)
  • Uluslararası Terörizm ve Failleri (2008)
  • İçimizdeki Şeytanlar - Sivil Toplum Örgütleri (2008)
  • Armenian Genocide a Big Lie (2015)
  • Atatürk Ülkücülüğü ve Türkçülük (2019)
  • Tarih Türklerle Başlar (Bilinmeyen Türk Tarihi) (2021)

References

  1. ^ a b "Akademik Kadro". Onbeş Kasım Kıbrıs Üniversitesi. Retrieved March 9, 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Boots and Suits: Historical Cases and Contemporary Lessons in Military Diplomacy" (PDF). Marine Corps University Press. 2023. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Amazon Ermeni Soykırımı'nı inkar eden kitabı satıştan kaldırdı". T24. July 15, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Yıldızlarımız: Dr. Ali Nazmi Çora". Selimiye Askeri Ortaokulu Mezunları Derneği. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  5. ^ "Dr. Ali Nazmi Çora Yazar Sayfası". Atayurt Yayınları. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  6. ^ a b Ali Nazmi Çora (2008). Çekiç Güç: Tarihimizdeki Kara Leke. Toplumsal Dönüşüm.
  7. ^ "Researcher Profile: Ali Nazmi Çora". DergiPark. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  8. ^ "11th International CEO Congress Abstract Book" (PDF). CEO Congress. 2023. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  9. ^ Ali Nazmi Çora (2004). Birleşik Türk Devletleri. Q Matris.
  10. ^ Ali Nazmi Çora (2008). İçimizdeki Şeytanlar - Sivil Toplum Örgütleri. Toplumsal Dönüşüm.
  11. ^ "Amazon Ermeni Soykırımı'nı yalanlayan kitabı satış listesinden çıkardı". Yeşil Gazete. July 15, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
  12. ^ "Türk Bayrağı'ndan klozet takımı satmışlardı, Amazon'dan ikinci şerefsizlik". Yeniçağ Gazetesi. July 15, 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2026.

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