The Nimitz class aircraft carrier CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln finished her 4 day port visit in Antalya, Turkey and started another sea leg of her return trip to USA. USS Abraham Lincoln is the flagship for Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 9, which is also comprised of embarked Carrier Air Wing 2, the guided-missile cruiser CG-71 USS Cape... Continue Reading →
This was rumored repeatedly last week but now it is official. E/V Nautilus is helping Turkish Navy to locate and inspect the wreckage of RF-4ETM, shoot down by Syria. The ship was in Istanbul for the preparations of her 2012 expedition to explore the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Turkey and Cyprus. She has departure from Istanbul on... Continue Reading →
The Turkish Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici, declared that the German owned and Antigua Barbuda flagged merchant ship M/V Atlantic Cruiser was not carrying any weapons or military equipment to Syria. This is the Google translation of his statement: The ship was searched on notice. Products to several countries, has started on the ship.Ship, a portion of the products in Turkey and Syria, while the other part was planning to leave Karabakh. Syria first to vacate the ship should have the burden of this, the opposition forces 'approach here, bringing weapons as' reacted. Threatened as... Continue Reading →
The German owned and Antigua Barbuda flagged merchant ship M/V Atlantic Cruiser arrived in Iskenderun, Turkey this afternoon. The ship suspected of carrying military equipment and weapon from Iran to Syria had shut down its AIS transponder for almost 24 hours On Monday. Officials in Germany are still seeking information about a German-owned ship believed... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy’s sole surviving Knox class frigate, F-253 TCG Zafer is very active despite her age. Last year she took part in Operation Unified Protector. She had her photos posted on the Facebook page of USNS Kanawha. I was thinking that she may have been already decommissioned but the old lady was seen today in Mersin harbor. The UN... Continue Reading →
Between 1998 and 2009 Turkish, US and Israeli navies conducted an annual naval exercise called Reliant Mermaid. This exercise is discontinued now in accordance with the deteriorating bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel in the last couple years. Last year Greece has replaced Turkey and these there nations held to naval exercise Noble Dina 2011. While the Reliant Mermaid was marketed as a trilateral humanitarian search and rescue (SAR)... Continue Reading →
Operation Active Endeavor (OAE) is one of the NATO's oldest still running operations. It started as support to the United States immediately after 9/11. The aim is to demonstrate NATO's solidarity and resolve in the fight against terrorism and to help detect and deter terrorist activity in the Mediterranean. OAE started as a NATO members... Continue Reading →
The Russian Boris Chilikin class fleet oiler Ivan Bubnov is in Syrian port Tartus since Friday. She left her home port Sevastopol and passed through the Bosphorus on 22th January 2011. Since then she has been cruising in the Mediterranean. One of my reader, Mr. Tom, was able to intercept a couple message from her while she was off... Continue Reading →
It is time again for another installment for a updates of the situation in Eastern Mediterranean: In September Israel signed a security cooperation agreement with Greece, amid declining relations with Turkey. This was followed by the approval of a Greek Parliament committee to the purchase Rafael-made Spice 1000 and 2000 bomb precision upgrade kits at... Continue Reading →
This photo is for me the proof that the Russian aircraft carrier is really in Syrian waters. Syrian authorities have called the visit of a Russian naval task force to the port of Tartus a “show of solidarity with the Syrian people,” the official SANA news agency reported. A Russian task force, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov... Continue Reading →
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