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Kısmetim-1 Incident
The Kısmetim-1 incident occurred on December 15, 1992 when members of the Turkish Narcotic Police on Turkish Navy vessels supported by US officials intercepted the MV ''Kısmetim-1'', a Turkish ocean freighter in Mediterranean international waters. The ship was suspected of being involved in smuggling of about morphine base into Turkey. The crew scuttled the ship during the operation. MV ''Kısmetim-1'' was owned by Osman Ayanoğlu. The morphine base on the ship, worth millions of dollars, belonged to a consortium of himself and his partners including Şeyhmus Daş and Hüseyin Baybaşin, all Turkish drug lords. Voyage MV ''Kısmetim-1'' departed on October 7, 1991 from the Port of Yarımca in İzmit, Turkey, carrying dyestuff to Karachi, Pakistan. As the ship docked at the destination port, Celal Kambur, the ship's purser started a conversation with the port policeman Yousuf Chacha. The Pakistani policeman asked the Turkish crew member to deliver a package to Ajman, a port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Police
The General Directorate of Security ( tr, Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü) or Turkish Police Service ( tr, Türk Polis Teşkilatı) is the national civilian police force responsible for law enforcement of the Republic of Turkey, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Interior. Structure In the provinces, it operates under the command of governors ( tr, vali) and district governors ( tr, kaymakam). Civil administrators ( tr, mülki amir) are responsible for the security and well being of towns and districts. The Turkish National Police (TNP) operates within the network of the civil administration system and carries out its duties under the command and control of the civil authority. Town governors and heads of district administrations supervise the force. The TNP is organised as follows: *Central organisation *Provincial organisation **81 Directorates of Provincial Police **751 Police Directorates of Towns affiliated to Provinces **22 Border Gates Police Directorates **18 Free-Zone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mechanical And Chemical Industry Corporation (Turkey)
The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation ( tr, Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi or MKE for short), established in 1950, is a reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with military products. History Its roots lie in the "Tophane-i Amire" ("Royal Arsenal") built in the latter part of the 15th Century to supply the Ottoman Empire's artillery corps with cannon, powder, and shot. This was reorganized in 1832 as the "Tophane Müşavirliği" ("Arsenal of Ordnance and Artillery Marshalship") and was later formed in a department of "Harbiye Nezareti" (Ministry of War) in 1908. After World War I and the following " Young Turks" revolt, it was reorganized as the "General Directorate of Military Factories" in 1923. Today, the MKE is made up of 12 facilities that employ 7,430 personnel. Legal status The company's legal status has changed from state-owned enterprise to a corporation, with the Law Nr. 7330 dated July 3rd, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismet Sezgin
Ismet ( tr, İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" and "faultlessness". Given name * Ali İsmet Öztürk (born 1964), Turkish aerobatics pilot * Ismet Akpinar (born 1995), German basketball player * İsmet Atlı (1931–2014), Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler * İsmet İnönü (1884–1973), second President of Turkey * Ismet Jashari (died 1998), Albanian member of the Kosovo Liberation Army * İsmet Kür (1916–2013), Turkish female educator, journalist, columnist and writer of mainly children's literature * İsmet Miroğlu (1944–1997), Turkish academic * İsmet Özel (born 1944), Turkish poet and scholar * Ismet Horo (born 1959), Bosnian comedian * Ismet Štilić (born 1960), former Bosnian footballer * Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo (1925–1987), Bosnian accordionist See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Ağar
Mehmet Kemal Ağar (born on 30 October 1951) is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security (effectively national police chief), serving from 1993 to 1995, before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. After being sentenced to several years in prison for criminal activities relating to the Susurluk scandal, he was released on probation in April 2013. Background and personal life Mehmet Ağar was born on October 30, 1951, at the state president's official residence Çankaya Köşkü in Ankara, where his father was serving as security. During his youth, he toured several places across the country due to his father's position as police chief. He began his high school education in Ankara, continued in Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul finishing in 1968. He studied finance in the School of Political Science at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necdet Menzir
Necdet Menzir (1945 in Bursa – 2 February 2013) was a Turkish bureaucrat and politician who served as Minister of Transport from 1997 to 1998, having been Istanbul Chief of Police (1992–1995). He died from respiratory failure at an Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ... hospital on 2 February 2013, at the age of 68. References 1945 births 2013 deaths Ministers of Transport and Communications of Turkey Government ministers of Turkey Deputies of Istanbul Turkish police chiefs People from Bursa Members of the 20th Parliament of Turkey {{Turkey-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically in Western Asia, its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established after the 1974 invasion and which is recognised as a country only by Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains include the well-preserved ruins from the Hellenistic period such as Salamis and Kourion, and Cypr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = Sicilian , demographics1_info1 = 98% , demographics1_title2 = , demographics1_info2 = , demographics1_title3 = , demographics1_info3 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = CEST , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal_code_type = , postal_code = , area_code_type = ISO 3166 code , area_code = IT-82 , blank_name_sec1 = GDP (nominal) , blank_info_sec1 = €89.2 billion (2018) , blank1_name_sec1 = GDP per capita , blank1_info_sec1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
P-3 Orion
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner. The aircraft is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the (MAD) of submarines. Over the years, the aircraft has seen numerous design developments, most notably in its electronics packages. Nume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Briscoe (DD-977)
USS ''Briscoe'' (DD-977), named after Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, Robert Pearce Briscoe United States Navy, USN, was a built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was laid down 21 July 1975, launched 28 December 1976 and commissioned 3 June 1978. The ship operated from Norfolk, Virginia during her entire 25-year career. When decommissioned, she was part of Destroyer Squadron 22. History ''Briscoe'' conducted firing trials in 1981–1982 in support of thSALGP(Semi-Active Laser Guided Projectile) off the coast of Vieques, Puerto Rico. These projectiles were fired from the 5 inch (127 mm) gun at a range in excess of . While in flight, an optical sensor would detect the signature of a laser-painted target on shore and convert the shell to an actively homing rocket for pinpoint destruction of moving and stationary targets on shore. Participated in Operation Urgent Fury, the liberation of Grenada, and in the Multi-National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TCG Akın (A 585)
USS ''Greenlet'' (ASR-10) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1970. In June 1970, the ship was transferred to the Turkish Navy, renamed TCG ''Akin'' (A-585) and remained in service until 2017. United States Navy service ''Greenlet'' was laid down by Moore Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. at their yard in Oakland, California on 15 October 1941. The ship was launched on 12 July 1942, sponsored by Mrs. B. P. Flood. ''Greenlet'' was commissioned on 29 May 1943. World War II After shakedown, ''Greenlet'' conducted patrol and escort runs out of San Diego, California before sailing for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii on 24 July. Constructed as a submarine rescue ship, she served at Pearl Harbor and at Midway for more than a year, making escort runs and conducting refresher training for patrol-bound submarines. As the progress of the war advanced steadily across the Pacific, she sailed to Guam on 21 December 1944 to carry out submarine training closer to the patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TCG Savaştepe (D 348)
USS ''Meredith'' (DD-890), a , was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jonathan Meredith, who saved the life of Lieutenant John Trippe of ''Vixen'', during the Barbary Wars. The destroyer was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, on 27 January 1945; launched on 28 June 1945, sponsored by Miss Juliette S. Kopper, great-great-great-grandniece of Sergeant Meredith; and commissioned on 31 December 1945. Service history 1946–1952 Following sea trials and shakedown exercises in the spring of 1946, ''Meredith'' was employed, for a brief period, in training submarine officers at New London, Connecticut, before steaming south to serve as plane guard for the aircraft carrier during the 1946 midshipmen summer cruise. In the late fall, she pointed her bow northward for operations off Newfoundland and Greenland. Remaining in the western Atlantic Ocean the following year, she cruised from Maine to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
