Turkish Navy

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Turkish Navy (Turkish: Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri) is a branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. The Turkish Navy has historically been one of the largest sea powers of the Mediterranean. Supported by its replenishment ships, the Turkish Navy can participate in international operations and exercises on every major sea and ocean of the world. Submarines can individually navigate up to 15,000 nautical miles and return back to their home bases.

[edit] History

Turkish Navy was once the largest sea power in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean; entering the history books of many countries in distant lands such as the British Isles, Iceland and Newfoundland in the west to India, Indonesia and Malaysia in the east.

Turkish Navy is a part of the historic consciousness of many nations such as the French, Algerians, Tunisians and Libyans as "allies", or the Maltese, Italians, Portuguese and Spaniards as "rivals" (even Miguel de Cervantes joined the Allied European Fleet to fight the Turks at the Third Battle of Lepanto in 1571.) Images and frescoes of the Turkish Navy are depicted on the walls of many famous palaces throughout Europe, such as the Pitti Palace in Florence and the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Famous Turkish admirals like Kemal Reis (who twice defeated the Venetian fleet at the First Battle of Lepanto in 1499 and the Second Battle of Lepanto in 1500), Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa (known as Barbarossa (Redbeard) in the West) who defeated the Holy League of Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria at the Island of Peñón in 1531, Battle of Preveza in 1538 and Algiers in 1541, Turgut Reis (known as Dragut in the West) who defeated the fleet of Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria at the Battle of Ponza in 1552, Piyale Paşa who defeated the Holy League of Philip II under the command of Giovanni Andrea Doria at the Battle of Djerba in 1560, Oruç Reis who established the Turkish presence in North Africa which lasted 4 centuries, Salih Reis who conquered Morocco in 1553 and extended Ottoman territory into the Atlantic Ocean, Uluç (Kılıç) Ali Reis who restored the Turkish domination of the Mediterranean after Lepanto in 1571, Murat Reis the Older who fought the Portuguese at the Indian Ocean between 1552 and 1554 and captured Lanzarote of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean in 1585, Seydi Ali Reis (known as Sidi Ali Reis in the West) who fought the Portuguese at the Indian Ocean in 1554 and is famous for his books of travel which are translated into many languages, Murat Reis the Younger who raided the coasts of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, the British Isles, the Shetland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland between 1627 and 1631, and countless others have all made it to the hall of fame of great mariners in history.

The famous Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis crafted amazing maps and books of navigation, including his first world map in 1513 which is one of the oldest surviving maps of America and possibly the oldest surviving map of Antarctica, despite being drawn more than 3 centuries before the official discovery of that continent. The first world map (1513) and second world map (1528) of Piri Reis are today preserved in the Library of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Other works of Piri Reis are preserved in the Turkish Naval Museum in Istanbul.

[edit] Officers

• Chief of the Turkish General Staff: General Yaşar Büyükanıt

• Commander of the Navy: Admiral Yener Karahanoğlu

• Fleet Command: Admiral Metin Ataç

• Northern Sea Area Command: Vice Admiral Uğur Yiğit

• Southern Sea Area Command: Vice Admiral Alev Gümüşoğlu

• Naval Training and Education Command: Vice Admiral Murat Bilgel

[edit] Structure

• Fleet Command
  • Surface Action Group Command, Gölcük, Kocaeli
  • Submarine Group Command
  • Fast Patrol Boat Group Command, İstanbul
  • Mine Warfare Group Command, Erdek
  • Logictic Support Group Command, Gölcük, Kocaeli
  • Naval Aviation Group Command, Cengiz Topel Air Base, Kocaeli
• Northern Sea Area Command, İstanbul
  • Istanbul Strait Command
  • Çanakkale Strait Command
  • Naval Hydrography and Oceanography Division Command
  • Naval Museum Command, İstanbul
• Southern Sea Area Command, İzmir
  • Navy Infantry Brigade Command
    • Amphibious Group Command
  • Accompaniment and Patrol Boats Flotilla
  • Aksaz Naval Base Command
• Naval Training and Education Command, İstanbul
  • Naval Academy, Tuzla, İstanbul
  • Naval High School, Heybeliada, İstanbul
  • Karamürselbey Training Centre Command, Yalova

[edit] Main equipment

[edit] Famous admirals, battles and vessels

Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa	Turgut Reis	Piyale Paşa	Piri Reis
Battle of Zonchio (1499), Ionian Sea	Battle of Preveza (1538), Ionian Sea	Turkish-Portuguese War (1554), Indian Ocean	Battle of Djerba (1560), West Mediterranean
Battle of Lepanto (1571), Ionian Sea	Turkish-Venetian War (1695), Aegean Sea	Turkish-Russian War (1788), Black Sea	Image of an 18th century Turkish galleon
Göke (1495) was the flagship of Kemal Reis	Flagship of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa	Mahmudiye (1829) was the world's largest warship for many years	Turkish submarine Abdülhamid (1886) was the first submarine in the world to fire a torpedo while submerged

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[edit] See also