A task force comprising of one navy ferryboat (TCG Iskenderun) accompanied by a frigate and a corvette, and carrying SAS/SAT teams to provide security at the port anchored Lebanon to evacuate 1200 Turkish nationals, and given the ferry's capacity other people desperately looking for an escape from Lebanon will be welcomed.

http://www.cnnturk.com/DUNYA/haber_detay.a...&haberID=205544

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060724&hn=35029

Here are some photos:

Some more:






special thanx to warrior for the photos.

Some High-Speed-Low-Drag out there.

Well done boys :applause:

Some hardcore guys those SAT operators are.I liked the pictures a lot. You can't find their pic. easily on internet.Thanks Saturn-5 and good luck to our boys. Hope everybody will be back safe and sound.

Doing their job and doing it in style. With TCG Iskenderun the TN is very well equipped for this mission too.

Question, who is the dude in the suit and why are the Levends saluting him? If he is a civilian why the salute, if he is a high ranking officer in civilian clothes why arent the SAT's saluting him?

He is the ambassador of Turkey to Lebanon.

I'm wondering what this gentleman is talking about.

The civilian guy in black glasses is Turkish ambassador to Beirut, who has organized the Lebanon leg of the operation. Look at th proud and happiness in his eyes and the respect by military personnel, as a matter of fact he acts in the capacity and with full authority of the Turkish President in Lebanon. A very good shot for Turkey 101 course, a must to attend. :)

This is the best picture for me. For once, I see that being a Turkish citizen made a difference. Look at the young man waiting in the line with the flag.




Thank you Irfan Acar and thank you TSK.

Better late than never.

What is it 12 days into the crisis now?

Nice to see Turkey pulling her weight in the region.

Cheers,
Alepou 340MB :rolleyes:

Sorry Alepou, but I think you confuse Turkey's location with the others. Before talking more, lets ask ourselves why there were only 1200 Turks to be evacuated by Turkish Navy.

Turkey is one of the first countries who evacuated her citizens. It was July 14th that Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry asked Turkish Citizens to contact Beirut Embassy. Just after this announcement, the first bus provided by the Turkish Embassy left Beirut, it included not only Turks but also foreigners. As you could have known, it is around 4-5 hours drive from Beirut to Turkey (it takes around 8-10 hours due to customs+rest etc). TCG Iskenderun is there to show the flag.

But perhaps you are right, we are two days late. After all, the airport was bombed on July 12. I guess nobody is perfect, look at when other countries arrived :)

By the way, there are still thousands of Turkish citizens there who doesn't want to leave.

I was talking about your Turkish navy. :soldier:

I wont bore you with the Hellenic navies activates, as I’m sure you would have seen the results on the news (International broadcasts by the way). :blink:

Cheers,
Alepou 340MB :hathello:

Oh yes Greeks did it better then Turks, good job, congrats.

Greeks are experienced in fleeing :D

I guess I need to make it clear that, the naval evacuation was the only route for Greeks so Greece had their fleet sent earlier. The Turks had alternative so the naval evacuation was the last resort. When the helenic ship arrived, the Turks were being evacuated for 5 days.

Of course, I wished we had sent some of the fast ferries (below) on the day of MFA announcements.


I'm sure extra trips would have solved the scheduling problems if one of these were diverted from Istanbul-Bandirma to Beirut.

@3er: of course you know that your joke implies the Turks are gaining experience in fleeing :).

Ah vre Alepou, you are killing me (once again)

So you were talking about Turkish Navy being allegedly late, right? Are we supposed to send ships first then organize the operation with the scale of One Thousand Two Hundred human beings, right? First send the ships to Beirut, then let the grey suit men do their jobs. Right? Oh, by the way, let's count all together: One, two, three, four... one hundred... two hundred three... one thousand twelve... one thousand two hundred... All at once.. One time ticket only.. How many C-130 or frigate (with very limited space, maybe we should remove those Harpoon's?) flights required for an operation in that scale.

Oh nevermind, it's worthless if it does not take place in the headlines of international press, right?

You can stop counting bro :D

you can always bore me with Hellenic navy activities. :lol: And Your Fellow International broadcasts...Mate, avoid drinking too much water with your meal. Turkey has done everything what necessary is with perfect results from the beginning of war until now (of course we will do in the following days,? if we need) , other things are nonsense to discuss.

And it seems you confuse some numbers here. thousand is ten time bigger than hundred. Guess over thousand?, how much time bigger than hundred?

Ahh,damn! I am missing international broadcast related glorious Hellenic navy move to Lebanon for rescuing chemical infected birds by the pro-US conquerer Israel.




forget it,
CDTRF

Naaaaa....except making jokes...
The HN...and the greek merchant fleet...were the most necessery fact in this evacuation...
alot of ships..(nearly 90%) were bored from different states to evacuate there citizens...
i will add some facts abouted soon...

but this isnt the matter who made a greate job in here...
Fact is that alot of people haid to leave there houses because of a war...
and this is sad///

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look at the guy in the big picture lebaneses army start to take nice camos !!!

or diffrent contry??? :doubt:

Good camo?? It is like, it was made from the same fabric as the dress with flowers my grandmo used to wear man, common!! :rolleyes: :D

haha
yes when look closer

like pazen kumas !!
;)

It seems the amount that is evacuated by Turkey is 7194 and it is estimated that the number will be well over 10.000 according to http://proje.hurriyet.com.tr/msnnews/?path...811111.asp&y=41.

does the number refer to the Turkish military or civilian vessels as well? infact are there any non military Turkish vessels taking part in the evacuation,kind of like the Greek ferries partecipating?

There are a number of Turkish merchant vessels shuttling between Turkey and Lebanon evacuating thousands of foreigners every day. Most of the are chartered by countiries that what to save their citizens from Beirut.

Why must our armies look so amerikanski?.....

A thing that enraged me was that the french gov affreighted a greek ferry to carry it's citizens but when greeks asked to join they refused!!!! Instead they accepted US citizens while all our ships accepted everyone when they had space....It reminds me of asia minor catastrophy and the behaviour of foreign ship crews....These are the true virtues mankind was always based on...Live and let the others die...

And finally, yes Turkey begun evacuating it's citizens right away by buses because they could at the time being afterwards all roads were bombed soo...No other escape than one, by sea..And in a final analysis when you evacuate your citizens with buses hardly noone takes notice(except for the enemy airforce) and with all that Greek evacuation participation they had to show that they are also present...

not only French...but also Italian and US...loaned (daneistikan) greek ships...
But no one...said something abouted... ;)

Quelle: http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060725&hn=35067

Look at the image Greek-Airbone posted in MilitaryPhotos.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He2...re/30753212.jpg

The caption says they are Lebanese soldiers guarding a Greek ship.

So I think you are right that the soldier is Lebanese.

I still stand by my view that the Turkish navy was slow to respond to the crisis.
You can pre position your ships into the area while your grey suit guys work on the details with the Israelis.

I have no idea what your counting?? (People?)

Maybe the Turkish armed forces were focused on the “invasion of northern Iraq” ?? :ph43r:

Cheers,
Alepou 340MB swordcross

@saladin

yes lebanese camo !

such a small countries create their own uniforms we just copy from every body !.

Here is a summary of the EU actions in response to the crisis in Lebanon

http://www.abhaber.com/haber_sayfasi.asp?id=12786

Cheers,
Alepou 340MB :hathello:

A new ship carrying medical supplies to the Lebanese people is just arrived to Beirut today. In addition to other supplies, TCG Bafra (an Aviso A69 corvette) is delivering 7 tons of dialysis supplies.






















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The 7 ton medical supplies were for dialysis machines of about 40 patients. It seems our boys managed to find some time to shave while rushing those urgently needed supplies. (Dr İlyas Nikola reported that 29 July was the last day of 22 patients in dialysis)

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2006/07/29/son/sondun21.asp

Unfortunately, the supplies are for three weeks. Lets hope that the war there finishes before their supplies run out. Otherwise, I really hope that navy, Turkish Kidney Foundation and Dialysis Association will continue supplying them.

Yeah well while your boys were shaving ours were delivering humanitarian aid for a couple of days now... :welcome:

... as if the above was the first Turkish aid reached to Lebanon :P

tsk tsk tsk. By now, you should know that Turkey is already utilizing the ground transportation from Lebanon to Turkey and the other way around. Just search for Turkey Lebanon and aid to see how many trucks already send there. And it is not only Lebanon. Perhaps you may also care to add palestine to your search, just to broaden your vision.

just to broaden your vision the government thinks of building a flyover bridge stretching from athens over the mediteranean sea over to lebanon in order for our trucks to reach lebanon.... And to broaden your vision a little more when palestine had a huge problem with the Isrealis back in the 80's it was the greek government that took from within the israely grasp the whole palestinian gov...And to further broaden your vision we were the first to evacuate even foreign civilians cause we don't check id's in times of need but we help other people...Since when did the turkish giv started caring for others? Did anyone promiss you anything in return?Turkey never acts for the wellfare of the world but for the wellfare of it's generals...Not even it's people...

Oooh! and by the way you know you could continue the kedros operation thread and not make another....it might be too old for you huh and you just needed to refresh our minds...