Syria parades new Turkish APCs
One of the Nurol Ejder APCs that featured in the Damascus parade. (Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images)
The Syrian Armed Forces displayed its new 6×6 Nurol Ejder armoured personnel carriers (APCs) during its first Liberation Day parade in Damascus on 8 December.
The parade included 12 of the Turkish-made APCs, which are a relatively obscure type that until recently was used only by Georgia. It was reported in 2024 that, having proved unreliable, the 72 Ejders Georgia received from 2008 had been returned to Türkiye in exchange for new BMC Vuran armoured vehicles.
An Ejder was then seen in Somalia during a graduation ceremony for recruits at the Turkish training facility in Mogadishu in July.
Later that month, several Ejders with Georgian camouflage were filmed being carried on transporters at a location that could be identified as one south of the Bab al-Hawa crossing on Syria's border with Türkiye.
The vehicles in the Liberation Day parade had been repainted in the tan colour now used by the Syrian Armed Forces but were not armed with machine guns.
For more information, please see Obscure Turkish APC displayed at Somali graduation ceremony .
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