Bartın Naval Base ( tr, Bartın Deniz Üssü) is a

submarine base A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel. Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue (the base for France's Force océanique stratégique), Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Na ...

of the Turkish Navy on the southern coast of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

Bartın Province Bartın Province ( tr, ), a small province in northern Turkey on the Black Sea, surrounds the city of Bartın. It lies to the east of Zonguldak Province. The town of Bartın contains a number of very old wooden houses in a style no longer ext ...

north of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The base is assigned to the Turkish Northern Sea Area Command. It is located west by north-west of

Bartın Bartın is a city in northern Turkey and the central district of the province of Bartın. Formerly a district of Zonguldak Province, Bartın was made into a province seat in 1991 with the constitution of its province, including four districts: ...

. The submarine pen, adjacent to the

Port of Bartın A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ha ...

, was built between 1960 and 1965 by the Turkish construction company

STFA STFA Group is one of Turkey’s rooted conglomerates providing services in the construction, energy distribution, construction equipment and construction chemicals. Founded in 1938 by pioneering contractors Sezai Türkeş and Feyzi Akkaya, STFA ...

to give underground shelter to the Black Sea submarine flotilla.

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