My regular readers may have noticed that I have not been writing much in the last few days. This due to the fact that I now have a regular day job. My new job takes up most of my day so that I have little time left for my blog. So my new year's resolution... Continue Reading →
Bosphorus Naval News Is On DefencePoint (UPDATED)
The DefencePOint, one of the few Greek military blogs that is worth of reading has published my story about the ESSM test of Turkish Navy. They have also used the photo showing the firing of the missile from this blog. Unfortunately the bloggers at this blog (initially) forgot to mention my blog as the source... Continue Reading →
Notice To Mariners
There will be light posting or no blogging until further notice.
Bosphorus Naval News Is On War Is Boring
One of the most interesting and influential blog of the military blogsphere, War Is Boring, published a photo from this website. The photo showing Turkish frigate F-241 TCG Turgutreis and British assault ship L-15 HMS Bulwark was first published on this blog on 16th April 2009. The photo was taken during the Egemen 2009 naval exercise. Unfortunately the bloggers at War Is... Continue Reading →
Third Anniversary
Today is the third anniversary of this blog. Last year two important changes have happened. First I had to change my service provider from Google's blogger to wordpress as most of the Google's IP addresses were blocked by a court order in Turkey for a considerable duration of time. The second and in my opinion the important change was... Continue Reading →
19 Mayıs
Today I wish to make an exception and write in my native language. I am sorry if this is an inconvenience for my non Turkish readers. Bugün 19 Mayıs. Mustafa Kemal Paşa'nın Samsun'da kurtuluş mücadelesine başlamasının yıldönümü. Ekteki yazı ulusal bağımsızlığın tek bir boyutu olmadığını politik, ekonomik, askeri hatta hukuki katmanlardan oluştuğunu bir kere daha hatırlatıyor. 19... Continue Reading →
List Of Warships Taking Part In Operation Unified Protector
NATO has published the names of the warships taking part in the arms embargo against Libya, as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 1973. On left is the screen shot from NATO website showing the photos of the participating ships. The regular readers of this blog will find the two photos I have marked very very familiar.... Continue Reading →
Related Links
Submarine Training Center Command, of Turkish Navy apparently finds my website good enough to be linked. It is not the first time that my website is liked by the official navy sites. But this is the first instance where I was document it.
