Turkish government is preparing for a large scale operation against Kurdish guerrillas despite the unilateral ceasefire declared by the PKK since 13 August 2010. Turkey is constructing hundreds of new army outposts in Kurdish region and preparing to buy 116 new fighter jets as well as helicopters.

AKP government's military budget is about 20 billion dollars. AKP is planing to set up a professional army which will be deployed to Turkey-Iraq border which is frequently scene of clashes between Turkish army and Kurdish guerrillas.

10 billion dollars will be spent on buying new generation fighter jets while at least 4 billion dollars will be spent to army helicopters.

According to the plans F35 jets will replace F16s which are used against Kurdish guerrillas in Kurdistan by 2014.

Israel's daily Haaretz reported that Turkey is negotiating with Italian and US companies for new generation attack helicopters.

There are also plans for building new army outposts. In 2009 Turkey announced plans to build new outposts in Batman, Bingol, Diyarbakir, Hakkari, Sirnak, Siirt, Mus, Erzurum, Kars, Dersim and Urfa. Most of these outposts are planned in border region.

Turkish government allocated 650 million dollars for the modernisation of outposts.

The professional army plans of Turkish government is also on the agenda of 2011. Army statements say the new army will consists of 10 thousand soldiers and will gradually expand to 50 thousand. The soldiers of this army will have 2,500 YTL (1700 USD) salary.

The main deployment areas for the special army is Hakkari, Siirt and Sýrnak.