>Yesterday, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign, Turkish Navy organized a naval parade in Dardanelles. It meant a 20 hours round trip for me to Çanakkale, see the parade, take the photos of the participating ships and return home. But it was worth it. 4 frigates, 4 fast attack craft and 4... Continue Reading →
>According to the Blackseafor commander, the On-Call Naval Force of Black Sea navies BlackSeaFor has left the Bulgarian port of Varna to conduct its next stage of exercises. The April 2010 activation of BlackSeafor is scheduled to end on 27th April and is commanded by Bulgarian Navy.As reported earlier, the first stage of the exercises... Continue Reading →
>F-492 TCG Gemlik, Turkish contribution to CTF-151 is returning to her home port Aksaz on 24th April 2010.She had left her home port to relieve TCG Gökova in Gulf of Aden, in early February. Currently TCG Gelibolu is the only Turkish warship in the Indian Ocean.
>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 →
>The naval exercise Deniz yıldızı 2010 has ended. The exercise that started on 6th April had four phases.The first phase from 6th April till 9th April was the deployment of the warships to their destinations. During this period ASW, AAW, ASuW exercises and underway replenishment training was conducted.The second phase from 9th April till 12th... 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 →
>The Canadian Halifax class frigate F-337 HMCS Fredericton is in Istanbul for a port visit. She arrived on 10 April morning.In the mean time there is a lot of activity in the Black Sea right now. Turkish frigate F-244 TCG Barbaros and submarine S-350 TCG Batıray are visiting Sevastopol Ukraine. One other foreign warship visiting... Continue Reading →
>Yesterday the first boat of the New Type Patrol Boat class was launched. As the boats are not officially commissioned they do not have a class names yet, neither does the boat. The boat P-1200 was laid in May 2008 and she is the first of a class of 16 boats. In August 2007, a... 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 →
>Turkish Navy has started with its annual spring naval exercise Deniz Yıldızı 2010.The exercise will be held between 6 and 18 April in Marmara Sea and in Black Sea. The order of battle of the exercise includes 7 frigates, one corvette, 3 submarines, 4 fact attack craft, 3 auxiliaries, 4 coast guard vessels, 4 helicopter,... Continue Reading →
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