Happy Holidays
24 Dec 2011 2 Comments
Bosphorus Naval News Is On DefencePoint (UPDATED)
25 Nov 2011 4 Comments
The DefencePOint, one of the few Greek military blogs that is worth of reading has published my story about the ESSM test of Turkish Navy.
They have also used the photo showing the firing of the missile from this blog.
Unfortunately the bloggers at this blog (initially) forgot to mention my blog as the source of the photo and their story. But the photo is visible and you can compare the photo and wording that story to mine.
Well I am not surprised anymore to see my stories or photos being used by other web sites or blogs that conveniently forget to mention this blog as the source.
But I am surprised by the remarks such as “As illustrated by the remarkable site” or “this portal is distinguished by seriousness and professionalism”.
UPDATE:
The DefencePoint made yesterday an announcement that have made the above mentioned omission without any bad intention.
I accept this announcement and thank them for their kind words about me and my work.
I am only happy to reciprocate their good natured wishes in a same manner and courtesy.
Bosphorus Naval News Is On War Is Boring
13 Oct 2011
One of the most interesting and influential blog of the military blogsphere, War Is Boring, published a photo from this website.
The photo showing Turkish frigate F-241 TCG Turgutreis and British assault ship L-15 HMS Bulwark was first published on this blog on 16th April 2009. The photo was taken during the Egemen 2009 naval exercise.
Unfortunately the bloggers at War Is Boring forgot to mention my blog as the source of the photo, but the watermark on the photo is visible. So now you know were that photo came.
Click here for the original blog post with the photo or click here just for the photo.
Third Anniversary
15 Sep 2011 21 Comments
Today is the third anniversary of this blog.
Last year two important changes have happened. First I had to change my service provider from Google’s blogger to wordpress as most of the Google’s IP addresses were blocked by a court order in Turkey for a considerable duration of time.
The second and in my opinion the important change was the merger of my other website the Unofficial Homepage of Turkish Navy with my blog. I have started my website about the Turkish Navy way back in 1998 before the official site of Turkish Navy was online. But those pages were, because of their nature very static, very Web 1.0 compared to blogging. Today the information on those pages are accessible through the menu at the header of the blog.
This is the 597th post on my blog. I have become a little more prolific writer in the last year. This due to the fact that currently I am between jobs and have more time to write for my blog.
I have received 276 comments and hundreds of spam. I thank each and everyone who has taken some time to write a comment or send me an e-mail.
I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
19 Mayıs
19 May 2011 3 Comments
Today I wish to make an exception and write in my native language. I am sorry if this is an inconvenience for my non Turkish readers.
Bugün 19 Mayıs. Mustafa Kemal Paşa’nın Samsun’da kurtuluş mücadelesine başlamasının yıldönümü. Ekteki yazı ulusal bağımsızlığın tek bir boyutu olmadığını politik, ekonomik, askeri hatta hukuki katmanlardan oluştuğunu bir kere daha hatırlatıyor.
19 Mayıs’ınız kutlu olsun.
Tümamiral Cem GÜRDENİZ’in Balyoz Davasındaki savunmasını okumak için tıklayın.
List Of Warships Taking Part In Operation Unified Protector
1 Apr 2011 3 Comments
NATO has published the names of the warships taking part in the arms embargo against Libya, as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
On left is the screen shot from NATO website showing the photos of the participating ships. The regular readers of this blog will find the two photos I have marked very very familiar.
The photos of the Turkish warships are directly linked to this blog.
The list of the participating ships is below:
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Pennant
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Ship
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Type
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Country
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| A-5326 | ITS Etna | Tanker | Italy |
| C-551 | ITS Garibaldi | Carrier | Italy |
| F-572 | ITS Libeccio | Frigate | Italy |
| P-492 | ITS C. Bettica | OPV | Italy |
| F-339 | HMCS Charlottetown | Frigate | Canada |
| F-85 | HMS Cumberland | Frigate | UK |
| F-451 | HS Limnos | Frigate | Greece |
| F-104 | ESPS Mendez Nunez | Frigate (!) | Spain |
| F-490 | TCG Gaziantep | Frigate | Turkey |
| F-492 | TCG Gemlik | Frigate | Turkey |
| F-493 | TCG Gelibolu | Frigate | Turkey |
| F-243 | TCG Yıldırım | Frigate | Turkey |
| A-590 | TCG Akar | Tanker | Turkey |
| M-853 | HMNLS Haarlem | Minehunter | Netherlands |
| M-923 | BNS Narcis | Minehunter | Belgium |
| S-358 | TCG Çanakkale | Submarine | Turkey |
| S-74 | ESPS Tramontana | Submarine | Spain |
| Bosphorus Naval News | |||
Related Links
31 Mar 2011
Submarine Training Center Command, of Turkish Navy apparently finds my website good enough to be linked.
It is not the first time that my website is liked by the official navy sites. But this is the first instance where I was document it.
A Necessary Move
28 Mar 2011
As you might have noticed the Bosphorus Naval News has changed its application provider. We are now using WordPress services.
The tug of war between Google (Blogger) and the Unnamed Digital TV company and the blocking of many IP addresses of Google was the primary reason for this change. I was able to reach my blog.
As WordPress is different from blogger my blog is not what it used to be. I have tried to keep the changes at a minimum.
>The Blocking Of The Blogger
19 Mar 2011
>As you might know since the beginning of March Turkish bloggers are having a very difficult time to reaching their beloved blogger blogs.
This is so because as a court in Diyarbakır ruled that access to blogger and to all the blogs it hosts should be blocked. The ruling of the court is based on a claim made by a satellite television provider (which I will not name because I do not want to make their advertisement) that some blogs on blogger are showing the football matches of the Turkish League online and for free. Where as this unnamed company paid the unreasonable high amount of 321 million TL, to buy the exclusive rights to broadcast Turkish football for the next four years.
Therefore they asked the court in Diyarbakir a town in the south east of Turkey, where as the HQ of this company is in the middle of Istanbul to block the blogger.
A web site (http://privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr/) announced that Google has taken the necessary steps for removing the blogs that violated the copyright from blogger so that the court decision can be revoked.
But so far I as a blogger I do not see any progress as I cannot access my own blog without using any proxies such as vtunnel.
This I why I have been able to update my blog regularly in the recent days.
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