EFES exercise gathered almost 10,000 personnel from 37 nations, including Libya, Italy, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Albania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the United States, and France, increasing from 8 countries in 2016 and 20 in 2018.
As part of a generic scenario, amphibious operations supported by artillery were carried out; targets were hit by ground fire support vehicles, warplanes and attack helicopters.
Special forces operations are also being conducted at EFES-2022, including: ship-to-target manoeuvring, airlift, combat search and rescue, and residential area capabilities.
EFES-2022, the largest joint exercise of the Turkish Armed Forces in the Aegean, was successfully completed Thursday after a ceremony attended by Erdoğan, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Vice President Fuat Oktay, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli, and other high-level statesmen and officials.
Also attenders of the exercise were Libyan Prime Minister and Defense Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh, the defense ministers of Azerbaijan, Gambia, Cameroon, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo and Rwanda, and the chiefs of general staff of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Hungary and Pakistan.
The EFES-2022 military exercise, one of the largest planned drills of the Turkish army, this year gathered almost 10,000 personnel from 37 nations.
