Nusret 2017 Mine Warfare Exercise

M-62 HS *Evropi* takes part in naval mine warfare exercise Nusret 2017. This is a photo of her from her Black Sea deployment in 2016.

Each year Turkish Navy organizes a mine warfare exercise named after the famous minelayer Nusret.

In even years the exercise is held in İzmir Bay and in odd years it is held in Çanakkale and Saros Bay. This year the exercise will be held between 25 November and 3 December 2017 in Saros Bay.

The aim of the exercise is to provide training for the planning and execution of mine warfare and to improve the interoperability in mine warfare, between warships from participant countries.

Turkish Armed Forces will take part with 6 mine hunters, one minelayer/command ship, one frigate, one patrol boat, one mine retriever, one Coast Guard vessels, one naval EOD team, one helicopter, 2 F-16C fighters and one C-130 cargo plane. For the first time, a Turkish autonomous underwater vehicle and its crew are listed among participants.

Bulgaria participates in one mine warfare ship. Greece and Qatar will each deploy one EOD team.

The below is the list of the participating warships as far as I could identify:

Number	Name	Type	Nationality	Fleet
H-88	HMS Enterprise	Command Ship	UK	SNMCMG-2
M-265	TCG Alanya	Minehunter	Turkey	SNMCMG-2
5558	ITS Crotone	Minehunter	Italy	SNMCMG-2
62	BGS Shkval	Minesweeper	Bulgaria	SNMCMG-2
M-62	HS Evropi	Minehunter	Greece	SNMCMG-2
32	Tsibar	Minehunter	Bulgaria
M-260	TCG Edincik	Minehunter	Turkey
M-261	TCG Edremit	Minehunter	Turkey
M-263	TCG Erdek	Minehunter	Turkey
M-267	TCG Ayvalık	Minehunter	Turkey
M-269	TCG Anamur	Minehunter	Turkey
M-270	TCG Akçay	Minehunter	Turkey
L-402	TCG Bayraktar	Landing ship	Turkey
F-XXX	TCG XXX	Frigate	Turkey
P-12XX	TCG XXX	Patrol boat	Turkey