>The multinational naval exercise Egemen 2009 is over but information about this exercise keeps popping up.According to the photos, I have been send, by one of the participants in this exercise, following naval units has been identified:A-386 RFA Fort AustinA-390 RFA Wave RulerDDG-57 USS MitscherF-241 TCG TurgutreisF-49X TCG G classF-50X TCG B classL-12 HMS OceanL-15... Continue Reading →
>This years first activation of the Blackseafor fleet has started on 3th April.Turkish frigate F-242 TCG Fatih, Ukrainian auxiliary U-510 Slavutich, Russian LST 151 Azov, Romanian corvette 264 Eustatiu Sebastian, and Bulgarian frigate 11 Smeli are this years participants. The Blackseafor fleet will conduct exercise with Turkish Navy. Varios Blacksea ports Sevastopol, Novoroski, Poti, Trabzon,... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Navy started a big exercise on 7th April 2009. Code named Deniz Yıldızı 2009 (Sea Star 2009) this exercise is divided in 4 phases:Phase will consists of ASuW, ASW,AAW, EW, live weapon firing, maritime situational awareness and vessel boarding inspection trainings.In phase two, multilateral trainings with the newly activated Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task... Continue Reading →
>Admiral Eşref Uğur Yiğit, Commander of Turkish Naval Fleet visited Athens this week.Admiral Yiğit, held meetings within the scope of confidence-building measures. Yiğit, who was in Athens as the formal guest of Greek Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Ioannis Karaiskos, was the second high ranking Turkish Naval officer to visit Athens in the last 6 months.
>According to Jerusalem Post, Israeli and Turkish Navies will participate in a search-and-rescue exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in July.This annual exercise, code named Reliant Mermaid, is organised since 1998. The objective of the exercise is to practice coordinated emergency SAR procedures and familiarize the participants with each other's capabilities. Usually US Navy always participates... Continue Reading →
>The security in the Black Sea is becoming more important each day as Black Sea becomes one of the most significant hubs for the Caspian Basin and Central Asian oil. Pumping the oil to the terminals at Black Sea is the easiest and cheapest way of exportation.On daily basis approximately 300 merchant ships are underway... Continue Reading →
>Today with a ceremony a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between Turkish and Romanian navies. Thus Romania becomes the third Black Sea country after Russia and Ukraine to join the Operation Black Sea Harmony (OBSH). The Commander of Romanian Naval Forces, Admiral Danila (Left) signed the MoA on behalf of his country. Admiral Ataç signed... Continue Reading →
>LHD-4 USS Boxer, the only dental-capable ship in the CTF-151, provided critical dental care to two Sailors from TCG Giresun, one of the Turkish Navy's G-class frigates.Lt. Christopher Henninger, DMD, Boxer's dental officer, said the dental problems the Sailors had ranged from moderate to emergent and could have potentially required medical evacuation had Boxer's facilities... Continue Reading →
>Today photos of FF(G)-42 USS Klakring in Sevastopol are published.Her arrival in this city again aroused the protests of Russians living here.
>Last week four Turkish flagged and manned cargo ships, M/V Ulusoy-8, M/V Horizon-1, M/V Halis Kalkavan and M/V Samanyolu were in Gulf of Aden. The vessels were registered to the international organisations vectoring the merchant traffic in the area.According to Turkish Navy pirates approached to Ulusoy-8 shortly after the Greek owned and Saint-Vincent-flagged cargo vessel... Continue Reading →
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