Nearly all these occurred in 1940, at the beginning of domestic reliance.īetween 19, the K.Kale factory manufactured around a quarter-million rifle receivers. These were for the most part marked ATF, for Ankara Tufek Fabrikast (Ankara Rifle Factory).Īccording to the site, a few early K.Kale-marked receivers were actually rebuilds using various repurposed, previously made actions. Thousands of Gew.98s were parted out and converted to the M1938 configuration. The first domestic-made Turkish Mauser-type rifles, they were built in Kirikkale Tufek Fabrikast, a government-owned “Military Factory.”ĭuring World War II, Turkey was neutral but isolated, and for the first time it had to rely on local armories to produce military firearms. While all previous models of Turkish Mausers and many of the so-called M1938s were actually made in Europe, K.Kale-marked rifles were manufactured in Turkey.
