>Turkish special forces boarding Leopard.Photo: Genelkurmay BaşkanlığıAccording to a new press release from Turkish General Staff, the boarding team on board of M/V Leopard finished its throughout search for the crew without finding them.Meanwhile the owners of the M/V Leopard contacted NATO Standing Naval Task Group SNMG-2/CTF-508 and informed that the pirates contacted them, and... Continue Reading →
>Leopard and TCG Gaziantep Photo: Genelkurmay BaşkanlığıAccording to Turkish General Staff's announcement, on 13 January 2010, Danish-flagged cargo ship M/V Leopard, called on the radio for help, stating she had been attacked by sea pirates. Subsequently the contact to the ship was lost. The ship was 200 miles off the coast of Oman at that... Continue Reading →
>RADM Ertuğrul, the previous commander of CTF-151 and his flag staffThis is from the US 5th Fleet CMF web site and show the international nature of the anti piracy forces very well.For the past three months the Turkish Navy was at the helm of Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151), the multi-national counter-piracy mission of Combined Maritime Forces... Continue Reading →
>Photo from CMFToday, with a ceremony on board of Royal Navy warship HMS Cornwall in UAE, Pakistan Navy Cdre. Abdul Aleem assumed the command of CTF-151, from Turkish Navy Rear Adm. Sinan Ertugrul.This is the first time that Pakistan will lead CTF-151. Pakistan regularly contributes warships to CTF-150 and assumed the command of that task force several... Continue Reading →
>The location of the attack according to Turkish General StaffTurkish General Staff made an official declaration about the pirate attack to M/V 26 Ağustos.The Turkish flagged M/V 26 Ağustos, operated by Nemtaş Shipping Corporation was attacked by sea pirates in Gulf of Aden while proceeding to Bangladesh.The shipping company informed the attack to the Turkish... Continue Reading →
>Turkish flaged bulker M/V 26 Ağustos was attacked by Somali pirates on 27 November 2010. The ship operated by Nemtaş Shipping company, was 200 nm east of Socotra islands when she was attacked.Following the established best management practices, the crew send and emergency signal and locked themselves in a safe room.An unnamed US Navy warship was dispatched... Continue Reading →
>One of the interesting naval concepts I have seen during the Naval Systems Seminar was a design from Yonca Onuk shipyard developed with Aselsan, for anti piracy operations.As I believe this project has some potential I wanted to examine it separately.Currently most of the warships send by various nation are frigates sizing between 1500 –... Continue Reading →
>On 6th September 2010, when leavening the Mombassa harbor Turkish frigate F-494 TCG Gökçeada ran aground briefly.She was freed with the help of Kenyan tugs after one hour. She was docked back in Mombassa for a damage survey. The seemingly undamaged frigate then left Kenya for Dar Es Salaam on her own power, the same day. More... Continue Reading →
>Turkish Navy announced yesterday, that a skiff used for piracy was put out of action. Turkish frigate F-492 TCG Gökçeada during the execution of a reconnaissance-surveillance mission close to the coast identified a boat that was used for piracy. According to the news release appropriate action was taken against the boat. Now the term “appropriate... Continue Reading →
>NATO has posted an unclassified PowerPoint presentation about the Piracy off Somalia. It is informative and up to date. Unclassified Somali Piracy Overview Brief - TRANSEC Sept 2010 http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=37996894&access_key=key-i1f75xrlxcpaj61t590&page=1&viewMode=slideshow I think we should be thank full that one of the most potent military application the PowerPoint is on the side of the good in this... Continue Reading →
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