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Turkish navy outlines 2033 vision

The Turkish navy aims at becoming a major global force by 2033.

Navy officers attend a delivery ceremony for the first nationally designed combat ship TCG Heybeliada at the Tuzla Naval shipyard in Istanbul September 27, 2011.  REUTERS/Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR2RWMP
Turkish navy officers attend a delivery ceremony for the first nationally designed combat ship, TCG Heybeliada, at the Tuzla naval shipyard in Istanbul, Sept. 27, 2011. — REUTERS/Osman Orsal

The most important event of the International Defense Industry Fair, organized in Istanbul May 5-8, was the signing of an agreement between Turkey’s Undersecretariat for Defense Industry (SSM) with Turkish Sedef and Spanish Navantia for construction of a $1.2 billion landing platform dock (LPD) that has emerged as the prestige project of the Turkish navy.

This project has become the most expensive defense project to be attempted in Turkey.

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