The one-day Ateş Serbest 2025 live-fire activity was held on 11 October 2025 at the General Nahit Şenoğul Shooting and Exercise Area (Zafer / Polatlı). Launched in 2014, the exercise returned this year as a Distinguished Observers’ Day: senior military leadership, press, trainees and personnel from multiple services attended the demonstrations. According to the exercise brochure, 82 systems were exhibited and 50 took part in live firing, with elements of the Land, Naval, Air and Special Forces Commands participating.

The exercise’s aim was to demonstrate the Turkish Armed Forces’ firepower and deterrent effect, familiarise personnel across services with each other’s weapons, and improve coordination of joint fire support — tasks that were underlined throughout the day’s combined-arms demonstrations.