Initial Requirements for Courses: 

Candidates must have succesfully completed some major trainings before and gained the skills listed below; 

1. Knowledge of Basic Military Rules and Techniques
2. 7200 meters run with 20 kg backpack in 52 minutes or less
3. %60 + achievement on rifle and pistol shootings 

Candidates showing success during tests of above requirements are accepted into the sniper / sharpshooter training programmes. 

Training Subjects 

During the Sniper / Sharpshooter Training Courses, all of the drills, taught to trainees, are practised in terrain by professional trainers with the special equipments supplied for every individual trainee and instruments such as helicopters, boats, electronic simulation systems and first aid simulation systems are used. The main subjects taught to trainees are as below; 

1. Physical Fitness and Toughness Training
2. Basic Shooting Techniques
3. Advanced Shooting Techniques
4. Reconnaissance and Intelligence
5. Communications
6. Evasion and Survival 

Skills to be gained at the end of the courses:

At the en of the course, candidates showing the qualifications of; 

1. Orientation to self-weapon and sharpshooting skills
2. Orientation to terrain by using camouflage techniques
3. Ability to identify the other armies’ sniper weapons
4. Knowledge and application of first aid procedures
5. Ability to survive during and after the mission behind the enemy lines 

are awarded with “Certficate of Sniper / Sharpshooter”… 

Duration of Course:

Trainings including therotical trainings, practises and simulations last 8 weeks in total