According to a statement made on the Official Turkish Navy Web page, Turkey is participating to the Phoenix Express exercise.
Phoenix Express 2012, a multi-national at-sea maritime exercise designed to help increase maritime safety and security in the Mediterranean Sea and to improve cooperation among participating nations of Algeria, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States.
Turkey is participation in PE12 with Gabya class frigate F-493 TCG Gelibolu and a naval infantry detachment.
On the other hand there has been no official statement either From Turkish General Staff or Turkish Naval Forces about the Turkish naval exercise Beyaz Fırtına 2012. Thus the below list of participating ships is gathered from various local and national news papers, web portals and is not complete. There is also no concrete information about the duration of the exercise.
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Number
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Name
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Type
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| F-511 | TCG Heybeliada | Corvette |
| F-494 | TCG Gökçeada | Frigate |
| F-504 | TCG Bartın | Corvette |
| P-335 | TCG İmbat | Fast Attack Craft |
| P-334 | TCG Meltem | Fast Attack Craft |
| P-321 | TCG Denizkuşu | Fast Attack Craft |
| P-327 | TCG Albatros | Fast Attack Craft |
| P-323 | TCG Şahin | Fast Attack Craft |
| P-347 | TCG Fırtına | Fast Attack Craft |
| A-571 | TCG Albay Hakkı Burak | Tanker |
| F-496 | TCG Gökova | Frigate |

If there is no other exercise at the same time around Izmir
also F-496 is taking part in this exercise :)
(as far as I know and I remembered the number correctly)
Hi, Izabela, thank you for this additional information. I will add it.