{"id":223,"date":"2025-08-06T10:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:59:22","slug":"from-syria-to-ukraine-turkish-kirpis-face-a-new-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/from-syria-to-ukraine-turkish-kirpis-face-a-new-war\/","title":{"rendered":"From Syria to Ukraine: Turkish Kirpis face a new war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1207\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/53357fc8-0057-4a3e-819d-4b4e961bcb37.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kirpi MRAP in Syria (left) and Ukraine (right)\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Turkish-made Kirpi armored vehicle, once used in joint patrols alongside Russian forces in Syria, is now rolling through Ukrainian forests, serving on the front lines of a very different war. Originally developed by Turkish defense company BMC in response to growing demand for mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles, the Kirpi \u2014 meaning \u201chedgehog\u201d in Turkish [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/from-syria-to-ukraine-turkish-kirpis-face-a-new-war\/\">From Syria to Ukraine: Turkish Kirpis face a new war<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish-made Kirpi armored vehicle, once used in joint patrols alongside Russian forces in Syria, is now rolling through Ukrainian forests, serving on the front lines of a very different war. Originally developed by Turkish defense company BMC in response to growing demand for mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles, the Kirpi \u2014 meaning \u201chedgehog\u201d in Turkish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenzolarikute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}