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TCG Gemlik frigate returned to Marmaris Aksaz naval base in southwest Turkey on Wednesday from a mission in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.
TCG Gemlik frigate left the naval base where is on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey on May 31.
The Turkish frigate with 266 soldiers patrolled in Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia and India Ocean for 208 days under the command of Combined Task Force (CTF) 151.
CTF is an international naval task force set up in response to piracy attacks in shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia. It has 27 member countries.
