The first ship of the new landing ship class, TCG Bayraktar is undergoing sea trials and acceptance tests. The contract for the construction of a new LST’s was signed between Ministry of Defence and ADIK_Furtrans shipyard on 11 May 2011. The value of the contract is 370 million Euros. It took almost two years for... Continue Reading →
Turkey Will Take The Command Of CTF-151 In June
The Minister of National Education and former Minister of Defence İsmet Yılmaz announced that Turkey will led CTF-151 for a fifth time in 2017. He revealed this information during the debates in parliament about extending the deployment of Turkish Naval Forces for anti piracy operations. A Turkish rear admiral will command CTF-151 between 29 June and 26... Continue Reading →
Turkish Parliament Extended The Anti-Piracy Mission Of Turkish Navy
On 8th February 2017, The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, extended the presence of Turkish Navy in Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and adjacent seas. The first bill allowing Turkish government to deploy Turkish Naval Forces for anti piracy operations was accepted in 10 February 2009. It was extended in one year periods ever since. Turkish... Continue Reading →
TCG Gelibolu Takes Part In AMAN 2017
TCG Gelibolu arrived in Karachi to take part in Pakistan led naval exercise AMAN 2017. Last week she was in Seychelles as a participant top Cutlass Express exercise. This is the first time that Turkey is taking part in this exercise with a warship. In previous exercise Turkey was present with naval special forces teams.... Continue Reading →
NATO Maps The Pattern Of Life In The Med
NATO Maritime Command has started a focused operation to map, patterns of life in the Mediterranean. This focused operation is led by Captain Emre Sezenler, Commodore of 2. Destroyer Flotilla of Turkish Navy and TCG Gaziantep acts as his flagship. Italian frigate ITS Aviere and Greek frigate HS Navarinon are the other components of this task... Continue Reading →
HS Ypoploiarchos Kristallidis And TCG Burak Appear On A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxNTm7T2dXM Greek Roussen class fast attack craft HS Ypoploiarchos Kristallidis and Turkish Burak class corvette TCG Bafra, both assigned to UNIFIL Mission exchanged mail and other pleasantries. Interesting part of the video starts at 2:14. For a very short time, a few other warships are also visible at the beginning of the video. The video... Continue Reading →
TCG Gelibolu Takes Part In Cutlass Express 2017
Gabya class frigate F-493 TCG Gelibolu departed from Aksaz Naval Base, on 22nd January 2017 for a deployment in Gulf of Aden and adjacent seas. Last Turkish ship to be dispatch to this region was TCG Büyükada in October 2016. According to Turkish Navy press release TCG Gelibolu will take part in Cutlass Express 2017 and AMAN... Continue Reading →
Sea Shield 2017 Naval Exercise
Once again Romania is hosting Sea Shield naval exercise. The exercise will take place between 1st and 11th February 2017. The exercise started with the planning and familiarization phase which will end on 5th February. The participants have already arrived at the Romanian port Constanta for this year's exercise. Besides, Romania, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, Turkey... Continue Reading →
TCG Alemdar Is Commissioned Into Service
Today the new submarine rescue ship A-582 TCG Alemdar was finally commissioned into service. The ceremony was planned for an earlier date, but had to be postponed. TCG Alemdar is the most capable submarine rescue vessel in Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea region. TCG Alemdar was designed from the keel as a submarine rescue ship... Continue Reading →
Warship Donations To Cyprus
Turkish Navy donated two naval vessels to Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Coast Guard. The vessels are former small landing craft of Ç-302 class. The boats are renamed as KKTCSG-301 and KKTCSG-303 and commissioned into service on 18 January 2017. Each of these boats can carry 60 tons of load or 140 troops. Their maximum... Continue Reading →
