>TCG Gaziantep shadowing M/V LeopardPhoto: NATOTurkish warship TCG Gaziantep - part of the NATO’s counter piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, boarded and searched Motor Vessel (MV) Leopard after it had been attacked by armed pirates. In the afternoon of January 12th MV Leopard was attacked by two pirate skiffs. As the pirates fired small calibre... 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 →
>SNMG-2 in formation. Official NATO photo.NATO released her version of exercise Mavi Balina 2010. Antalya, Turkey. From 1 to 11 November the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2(SNMG2) took part in the Turkish exercise MAVI BALINA. This annual exercise aims to train units and staff in planning and conducting anti submarine warfare and submarine warfare and... Continue Reading →
>The ships of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 are in Antalya for a well deserved rest, after the ending of the naval exercise Mavi Balina 2010.The commanders of the ships, made a courtesy visit to the governor of Antalya.Click here for some photos where you do not see much. The ships will stay in town till the... Continue Reading →
>A Gür class submarine, a possible participantTurkish Navy is hosting a naval exercise in Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The invitation exercise Mavi Balina 2010 (Blue Whale 2010) has started today and will continue till 11 November 2010.The aim of the exercise is to conduct submarine warfare and anti submarine warfare training with surface, submarine and air... Continue Reading →
>After being assembled on 12th September in Rota, Spain, the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) set sail to Morocco. CountryShips NameTypeNetherlandsHNLMS De Zeven ProvinciënFrigate TurkeyTCG Barbaros Frigate GermanyFGS BremenFrigateGreeceHS ThemistoclesFrigateItalyITS AviereFrigateThe five ship of SNMG2 will dock in Casablanca on16th September to boost ties with Morocco, under NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue program, launched in 1994, which focuses... Continue Reading →
>Turkish frigate TCG Gelibolu, serving in NATO Maritime Standing Naval Task Group 2, encountered and neutralised 12 pirates on two separate different incidents, on 21 April 2010.In first incident the frigate encountered two boats in suspicious activity, in the vicinity of Liberian-flagged M / V Safmarine Cunene. TCG Gelibolu forced the pirates stop their boats... Continue Reading →
>A mother ship and 2 skiff type speed boat were detected by F-493 TCG Gelibolu, 250 miles north east of Seychelles on 18 April 2010 at 07:00 local time. They were on the route of the Turkish vessel M/V Servet-Y.TCG Gelibolu intervened and stopped the mother ship. The naval special forces boarded the pirate vessels and... Continue Reading →
>NATO released her version of the events that F-493 TCG Gelibolu disrupted a pirate attack against Dutch merchant ship MV Torm Ragnhild and resulted in the release of a hijacked dhow. The Commanding Officer of TCG Gelibolu, Commander Baybars Küçükatay Turkish Navy said:‘With Gelibolu quickly arriving on the scene the pirates had little option to abandon... Continue Reading →
>On 3 April 2010, F-493 TCG Gelibolu spotted a dhow 75 miles off the shores of Yemen, inside The IRTC. This dhow previously fired upon the Danish flagged, Torm Ragnhild, in an attempted hi jack. The Turkish frigate forced the pirates out of the IRTC by maneuvering and warning shots. She started to chase the... Continue Reading →
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