>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.
>Greek Submarine Force
>It is getting complicated to follow the restructuring and modernisation of Greek submarine force.Hellenic navy has 8 Type 209 submarines of German origin. The first 4 of them Glavkos, Nereus, Triton, Proteus are built between 1968 - 1972 and have 1100 tons displacement. The second batch Poseidon, Amphitrite, Okeanos, Pontos are built between 1976 -... Continue Reading →
>A small review of 2008
>When a year ends, it has become more or less a custom to make some Top-(n) lists to review the important events, happenings of that year.Well, I will not make an exception. Here is a 5 point list about the most important events for Turkish Navy in 2008: The launching of F-511 TCG Heybeliada: The... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Minex Nusrat 2008 has started
>Minex Nusrat 2008 has started on 31th October 2008 and will continue till 8th November 2008.This exercise, organized by Turkish Navy is held in North Aegean. Among the participants are ships from MCM ships from Romanian, Greek, Royal Navy, SNMCMG-2, mine sweeping and laying ships from Turkish Navy and naval EOD forces from UK and... Continue Reading →
>Military Exercise Announced
>Shorty after last month visit of Admiral Ataç to Athens it was announced that Turkish and Greek navies are going to hold a joint military exercise.It is yet early to speculate about the details (Photoex, Passex or something else) of this exercise and about its scope.But it seems that the "confidence building measures" discussed by... Continue Reading →
>Admiral Ataç in Greece
>Between 1st October and 3rd October 2008, the Commander of the Turkish Navy Admiral Metin Atac conducted a three day visit to Athens. The scope of this visit was to discuss confidence building measures in the Aegean and go over steps to be taken in the future. According to information of the news Admiral Ataç... Continue Reading →
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