Türkiye’s largest military exercise in Aegean 'successfully completed'

By Zehra Nur Duz

ANKARA (AA) – EFES-2022, one of Türkiye’s largest military exercises in the Aegean Sea, has been “successfully completed as planned,” the National Defense Ministry announced on Friday.

More than 10,000 personnel from 37 “friendly and allied countries” took part in concerted exercises held along the Aegean coast, the ministry said on Twitter, also sharing a video montage of various drills.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Vice President Fuat Oktay, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli and other high-level officials attended the Observer Day on Thursday.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh, defense ministers of Azerbaijan, the Gambia, Cameroon, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo and Rwanda, as well as top military officials from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Hungary and Pakistan were also among the guests.​​​​​​​