𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 (Türkiye) 𝟰 Ş𝘂𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: "Savaş gemisi inşasında darboğaza girdiler! Çin'le yarışta Türkiye'yi radara aldılar" + 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝘆𝗲 (UK) 𝟯 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: "US in talks with Turkey to boost naval shipbuilding amid China rivalry" + 𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗵 (𝟮𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝗮𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲): "MİT ve emniyetten ortak operasyon: İran’ın casus ağı deşifre oldu!" + 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝘆𝗲 (UK) 𝟮𝟴 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: "Turkey foils Iran plot at US Incirlik base: Report"
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Savaş gemisi inşasında darboğaza girdiler! Çin'le yarışta Türkiye'yi radara aldılar
Pekin yönetimi ile denizlerdeki rekabeti artıran ABD, Türk tersanelerini araştırıyor. Yetkililere göre ABD'li temsilciler, görüşmeler sırasında Türkiye'nin gemi parça tedarik zincirini ve tersanelerin ABD Donanması için fırkateyn üretiminde rol üstlenip üstlenemeyeceğini değerlendirdi.
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ABD Donanması'nın, Çin ile derinleşen stratejik rekabet ortamında filosunu büyütmek amacıyla Türkiye ile deniz gemi inşası alanında işbirliği görüşmeleri yürüttüğü öne sürüldü.
Middle East Eye'ın haberine göre, ABD Donanması yetkilileri geçen yıldan bu yana Türkiye ile temas halinde. Görüşmelerin, Washington'un artan gemi ihtiyacına çözüm bulma arayışının bir parçası olduğu ifade ediliyor.
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TÜRKİYE ABD'NİN DİKKATİNİ ÇEKTİ
Son yıllarda savunma sanayii ve tersanecilikte önemli bir ivme yakalayan Türkiye, bu alandaki kapasitesiyle ABD'nin dikkatini çekti. Haberde, Türk tersanelerinin aynı anda Türk ve Pakistan donanmaları için 30'dan fazla savaş gemisi inşa edebilecek üretim gücüne sahip olduğu vurgulandı.
Türkiye'nin MİLGEM projesi kapsamında geliştirdiği yerli ve özgün savaş gemisi tasarımlarının da Ankara'yı küresel ölçekte öne çıkaran unsurlar arasında yer aldığı kaydedildi.
ABD TÜRKİYE'NİN KAPASİTESİNİ DEĞERLENDİRDİ
Yetkililere göre ABD'li temsilciler, görüşmeler sırasında Türkiye'nin gemi parça tedarik zincirini ve tersanelerin ABD Donanması için fırkateyn üretiminde rol üstlenip üstlenemeyeceğini değerlendirdi. Middle East Eye, temasların Trump yönetiminin Amerikan tersanelerini yeniden canlandırma ve donanma kapasitesini artırma hedefiyle bağlantılı olduğuna dikkat çekti.
'MÜTTEFİK ODAKLI ÜRETİM' STRATEJİSİ
ABD, gemi inşa kapasitesini artırmak için daha önce Japonya ve Güney Kore gibi müttefiklerle işbirliğine gitmişti. Güney Koreli Hanwha Group'un Aralık 2024'te Philadelphia'daki Philly Shipyard'ı satın alması, bu yaklaşımın somut örneklerinden biri olarak gösteriliyor.
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Ancak bu süreç her alanda sorunsuz ilerlemedi. ABD Donanması, Aralık 2025'te İtalyan Fincantieri ile yürütülen Constellation sınıfı fırkateyn programının iptal edildiğini açıklamıştı. Söz konusu iptal, Washington'un alternatif üretim merkezlerine yönelmesini hızlandırdı.
"TRUMP YÖNETİMİ TÜRKİYE İLE GÖRÜŞTÜ" İDDİASI
ABD yasaları savaş gemilerinin yurt dışında inşasına ciddi sınırlamalar getirirken, Başkan Donald Trump bu konuda daha esnek bir tutum sergilediklerini dile getirdi. Trump, ocak ayında yaptığı açıklamada, "Gemi inşasını yeniden başlatmak istiyoruz. Gerekirse müttefiklerden yararlanabiliriz" ifadelerini kullanmıştı.
Middle East Eye'a konuşan bir ABD'li yetkili ise Amerikan tersanecilik sektörünün ciddi bir darboğazdan geçtiğini belirterek, Trump yönetiminin bu ihtiyacı karşılamak için Türkiye ile görüşmeler yaptığını öne sürdü.
US in talks with Turkey to boost naval shipbuilding amid China rivalry
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Turkey and the United States have been holding talks since last year on cooperation in naval shipbuilding, as the US Navy seeks to expand its fleet amid growing competition with China, officials told Middle East Eye.
Ankara has emerged as a naval powerhouse in recent years. Its shipyards are capable of producing more than 30 ships simultaneously for the Turkish and Pakistani navies.
Turkish defence firms have also developed indigenous designs for a wide range of vessels under the Milgem project, Turkey’s national warship programme.
According to officials, US representatives explored whether Turkey could supply ship components, while discussions also floated the possibility of Ankara helping the US Navy build additional frigates.
The Trump administration wants to both revive US shipbuilding and enlarge the US Navy’s fleet. So far, it has leaned on Asian allies Japan and South Korea for know-how after decades of US underinvestment.
The prime example is South Korea's Hanwha Group, which purchased Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in December 2024 for $100m.
The company wants to produce up to 20 ships a year, but the US’s efforts face headwinds elsewhere.
In December 2025, US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced that the Pentagon had cancelled the Constellation-class frigate programme that the Navy had entered into with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. The frigates, vessels designed for quick manoeuvrability, were supposed to be built at a shipyard in Wisconsin.
Turkey is unlikely to invest in US shipyards, and US law generally prohibits the Navy from building warships overseas. However, US President Donald Trump has signalled that his administration is exploring building vessels inside allied countries to address shortages.
“We used to build a ship a day. We don’t build ships anymore. We want to get that started. And maybe we’ll use allies also in terms of building ships. We might have to,” Trump said in January.
Shipbuilding to strengthen ties
A US official told MEE that the US’s early discussions with Turkey underscored the severity of its problem.
“The US shipbuilding industry is in a real crisis, and the Trump administration has talked with Turkey about meeting its needs,” the official said.
Any deeper defence cooperation with Turkey could face scrutiny in Congress, which slapped sanctions on Ankara over its 2019 purchase of the Russian S-400 air defence system as part of Caatsa (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act).
Among advocates of closer cooperation with Turkey in the administration, shipbuilding is viewed as a way to strengthen ties while working around the sanctions, a former US official told MEE.
“The Department of Defence has already been looking for alternative production sites,” one US State Department official added.
“There is a serious mobilisation underway in the United States to build ships,” said Kubilay Yildirim, a Turkey-based defence industry expert. “They are pushing vessels through a kind of production bottleneck at a fixed output rate.”
Yildirim said America’s biggest challenge is increasing ship production while simultaneously developing new designs and addressing the overhaul and modernisation needs of an ageing fleet.
“For these processes, the US lacks sufficient manpower, shipyards and dry docks,” he said.
“Turkey can help in terms of production volume, timelines, risk sharing and workload distribution.”
Unlike in the US, Yildirim noted, Turkish shipyards are geographically concentrated around the cities of Pendik and Tuzla near Istanbul and across the water in the Yalova region, allowing them to adapt to new projects very quickly.
As part of the discussions, a delegation from the US Naval Sea Systems Command visited the Istanbul Naval Shipyard Command last week.
Commenting on the talks, a US spokesperson told MEE that Turkey is a longstanding and “deeply valued Nato ally”.
“The US and Turkish navies have a strong partnership at sea and are always looking for ways to expand that partnership,” the spokesperson said.
The US Department of Defence’s 2016 National Defence Strategy states that Washington would seek to leverage Nato partners through burden sharing, “while also working to expand transatlantic defence industrial cooperation and reduce defence trade barriers in order to maximise our collective ability to produce the forces required to achieve US and allied defence objectives”.
Innovative shipyards
A Turkish source familiar with the country’s shipyards said the Istanbul Naval Shipyard has spare capacity that could help the US build additional vessels.
Yildirim said Turkey has a sufficient number of welders and skilled personnel, access to multiple steel and component suppliers, and shipyards that are well accustomed to military shipbuilding projects.
Under the leadership of the Turkish defence company STM, multiple civilian and military shipyards have jointly bid on numerous programmes. In these arrangements, one yard may produce specific modules that are then transported to another yard’s dry dock, integrated there, fitted out and ultimately delivered to the relevant navy.
“There is a strong culture of collaborative work,” Yildirim said.
He added that the experience of the Pendik Naval Shipyard Command’s Design Project Office is particularly notable.
“They design the ship, build it on their own slipways, conduct testing and sea trials, implement necessary modifications, freeze the design, issue outfitting and work orders, and then distribute the workload to different civilian shipyards,” he said.
Yildirim also noted that Turkish shipyards are highly innovative, routinely automating parts of the production process, whereas many US yards still rely heavily on manual labour.
“These technologies are now beginning to mature, and Turkey is one of the countries where they are being developed and incubated,” he said.
MİT ve emniyetten ortak operasyon: İran’ın casus ağı deşifre oldu!
MİT ve Emniyet'in ortak operasyonuyla İran istihbaratına çalışan casusluk hücresi çökertildi. 6 şüpheli tutuklandı. Soruşturmada, hücrenin başında İranlı istihbaratçılar Najaf Rostami ("Haji") ve Mahdi Yekeh Dehghan ("Doktor") olduğu belirlendi. Rostami'nin, Van'da yaşayan Alican Koç'u Adana'daki İncirlik Hava Üssü'nde fotoğraf ve video çekimi yapacak kişiler bulmakla görevlendirdiği tespit edildi. İşte detaylar...
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SİHA SEVKİYATI PLANLADI
Soruşturmada, hücrenin başında İranlı istihbaratçılar Najaf Rostami ("Haji") ve Mahdi Yekeh Dehghan ("Doktor") olduğu belirlendi. Rostami'nin, Van'da yaşayan Alican Koç'u Adana'daki İncirlik Hava Üssü'nde fotoğraf ve video çekimi yapacak kişiler bulmakla görevlendirdiği tespit edildi.
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İNFAZ TEKLİFİ ALDIM
Erhan Ergelen ve Taner Özcan'ın Ekim 2025'te İran'a gittikleri, Güney Kıbrıs'a SİHA sevkiyatında rol aldıkları ortaya çıktı. Remzi Beyaz, ifadesinde muhaliflere yönelik infaz teklifi aldığını açıkladı. Şebekenin "Güvercin" kodlu şifreli mesajlarla, drone ticareti görünümü altında faaliyetlerini finanse ettiği belirlendi.
Turkey foils Iran plot at US Incirlik base: Report
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Turkish security forces have arrested a cell working for Iranian intelligence that attempted to spy on the US airbase at Incirlik, Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The report said that Turkish intelligence and Istanbul police detained six people across five provinces, adding that the cell was led by Iranian intelligence agents NR, codenamed “Haji”, and MYD, codenamed “Doctor”.
The investigation revealed that NR tasked Turkish citizen AK, who lives in the eastern province of Van, with hiring people to take photos and videos of the Incirlik Air Base in Adana, which has been jointly controlled by Ankara and Washington for decades.
The story surfaced as US President Donald Trump reviews military options against Iran following weeks of anti-government protests that have been suppressed with disproportionate force, killing at least 4,000 people, according to Turkish officials.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned earlier this month that Tehran could carry out preemptive strikes against Israel and US military assets in the region.
“In the event of an attack on Iran, both the occupied territories and all American military centres, bases, and ships in the region will be our legitimate targets,” Qalibaf said during a parliamentary session.
“We do not consider ourselves limited to responding after the act and will take action based on any objective signs of a threat.”
Sabah reported that five of the six suspects were Turkish nationals, while one person, identified by the initials AJ, was an Iranian citizen. They were arrested by the Istanbul Criminal Courts of Peace on charges of “obtaining confidential state information for political or military espionage purposes”.
According to the report, Turkish national AK and Iranian national AJ attended special drone training programmes in Iran between August and September 2025. The report also alleged that AJ, through two companies he owns, tried to ship armed drones to the Republic of Cyprus.
Cyprus remains divided between the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus in the south and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognised only by Ankara.
Southern Cyprus has reportedly become a hub for US and British intelligence activities during Israel’s genocide in Gaza since 2023, providing information to the Israeli military. Reports also suggest that many Israelis have purchased property on the island.
Sabah further reported that two other Turkish nationals involved in the cell, identified as EE and TO, travelled to Iran in October 2025 and played a role in drone shipment attempts to southern Cyprus.
In his testimony, another Turkish national, RB, said he had received an offer to carry out an assassination against Iranian dissidents.
The network reportedly used encrypted messages under the codename “Pigeon” and financed its operations under the guise of drone trade activities.
Trump initially threatened Tehran during the violent crackdown but later said he was open to talks with Iran’s leadership.
Washington has since been weighing precision strikes on “high-value” Iranian officials and commanders it deems responsible for the deaths of protesters, a Gulf official familiar with the discussions told Middle East Eye.
In recent days, the US has deployed warplanes, air defence systems and battleships to the region, giving Trump the option to target senior Iranian officials.
The build-up appears to be reaching a peak. On Monday, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived in Middle Eastern waters.