>Turkish Navy announced that Turkish frigate F-491 TCG Giresun, currently attached to CTF-151 helped a Turkish merchantman under attack 700 miles away.Turkish flagged M/V Gökcan was attacked by pirates on 10 June 2009 off the coast of east Oman. While initiating evasive maneuvers and increasing speed the ship notified Turkish authorities that she was under... Continue Reading →
>Order of Battle for Exercise Joint Warrior
>With more incoming information it was necessary to update the OoB for the Exercise JW:A-14 SPS PatinoCG-58 USS Philippine SeaD-560 ITS Luigi Durand De La PenneDDG-51 USS Arleigh BurkeDDG-58 USS PorterF-235 HMS MonmouthF-462 HS KountouriotisF-497 TCG GöksuF-81 HMS SutherlandF-83 HMS St. AlbansM-1069 FGS HomburgM-1090 FGS PegnitzM-642 FS CassiopeeS-104 HSM SceptreT-AH 192 USNS Kanawha
>TCG Göksu to take part in Joint Warrior 2009
>I know that Scotland and its Loch's are miles away from Bosphorus but there is a big naval exercise is about to begin and one Turkish warship is taken part in it.The exercise is called Joint Warrior 2009 and is organised by Royal Navy. NATO's SNMG-2 including F-497 TCG Göksu, is taking part. The JW... Continue Reading →
>Martime Commanders Has Met in İstanbul
>Admiral Uğur Yiğit, the Commander of the Turkish Fleet was the host of this years NATO's annual Maritime Commanders Meeting (MARCOMET 2009).Attended by 129 senior maritime, political and commercial delegates from 27 countries, MARCOMET 2009 started on 4 May under the overall theme “The Future Security Environment – Implications for Navies” and was focused on... Continue Reading →
>Black Sea Partnership Exercise 2009
>The exercise has started on 29 April in Karadeniz Ereğlisi and will end on May 4 in İstanbul.Turkey, Russia, Romania and Georgia are participating in this military exercise, the goal of which is to boost cooperation and mutual training among the Black Sea littoral states and support partnership for peace activities.As the exercise will end... Continue Reading →
>Turkish media reaction about the appointment of Adm Stavridis for SACEUR
>The appointment of Admiral Stavridis for the post of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe was caught by Turkish media as well. In every news news the Greek origins of admiral's family was mentioned. Only a few ones mentioned that he was also a intellectual and web savvy solider.I was fist became aware of Admiral Stavridis... Continue Reading →
>Egemen 2009 (Updated)
>This week a multinational military exercise called Egemen-2009, will start in Turkey.There is absolutely nothing on the Turkish news and defence portals about this exercise and about the participants except the fact that this exercise will happen. Therefore it is very difficult to determine the exact order of battle.Among the participants are Taurus 2009 task... Continue Reading →
>Noble Manta 2009 ended
>Today the biggest NATO ASW exercise Noble Manta ended. The final press relase for the exercise can be read here.Commander Submarines, Allied Naval Forces South;Rear Admiral Leidig stated:“Noble Manta confirmed this year to be a vital tool to maintain and improve allied interoperability in all the aspects of modern warfare that involve the use of... Continue Reading →
>Noble Manta 2009 continues
>NATO’s largest annual anti-submarine warfare exercise, Noble Manta 2009 is taking place in the Ionian Sea to the Southeast of Sicily. The exercise started on 13 February and will and on 27 February 2009.Eight NATO nations are providing 6 submarines, 9 surface ships and 13 aircraft to take part in the exercise.Turkish Navy participates with... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Straits Key to Georgian Crisis
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