ISKENDERUN, Turkey .................................................................... USS Truckee AO-147 6th Fleet Replenishment Ship made port here in 1972 per current records on hand |
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Iskenderun , formerly Alexandretta, city (1990 pop. 156,198), S Turkey, on the Gulf of Alexandretta, an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea. The principal Turkish port on the Mediterranean, it has a large steel plant and is the terminus for an oil pipeline. The city was founded by Alexander the Great to commemorate his victory over the Persians at Issus in 333 B.C. In 1515 the Ottoman Empire under Selim I, its ruler, captured the city. Iskenderun was transferred (1920) to the French Syria League of Nations mandate as part of the sanjak of Alexandretta, but was returned to Turkey in 1939.
In 1990, the Southeastern Anatolian project was completed. With these series
of dams along the Euphrates and a fresh water lake of 260 sq. miles in the
middle of arid eastern Turkey, financed primarily by Turkey's own resources, and
with the oil pipeline in Iskenderun pumping the Iraqi oil to the West,
southeastern Turkey was poised for an economic boom.
DD-544 USS BOYD was sold to Turkey on October 1 1969. Renamed Iskenderun USS SELLERS conducted an emergency underway at Iskenderun, Turkey, as heavy weather made its position at the NATO fuel pier untenable. The destroyer suffered some scraping and minor damage along the main deck but was able to clear without injuries to the crew or damage below the waterline. - February 29, 1976
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 MV Tellus made port in Iskenderun, Turkey on February 19 2003 and began to
offload more than 500 military vehicles thought to be associated with V Corps
engineer units. The equipment is said to be part of a port expansion and upgrade
needed to make the port ready for significant amounts of equipment from the 4th
Infantry Division.
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 Two US soilders walk past US military vehicles at the Iskenderun port in
Southern Turkey March 7, 2003. Although the Turkish parliament rejected the motion on
US troops' deployment, eight ships carrying US military equipment have arrived
at the port. About 300 military vehicles and tankers were unloaded from a ship
Thursday night. Xinhua
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 U.S. soldiers walk towards a bus, right, as a Humvee passes a convoy, rear,
waiting to leave the staging area in the harbor of Iskenderun, Turkey, Sunday
March 2, 2003, from: Newspaper
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