List of amphibious warfare vessels of the Turkish Navy

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This is a list of Turkish Navy amphibious warfare vessels that have served past and present, from 10 July 1920^[1] to present.

Tank landing ships

Bayraktar class tank landing ship (Ex-Bundesmarine of West Germany, Ex- US Navy LST-511 class tank landing ship:

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Bayraktar (NL-120)		Ex-FGS Bottrop (N-121), Ex-USS Saline County (LST-1101)^[2]	13 December 1972
TCG Sancaktar (NL-121)		Ex-FGS Bochum (N-120), Ex-USS Rice County (LST-1089)^[2]	12 December 1972

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Ertuğrul (L-401)^[3]		Ex-USS Windham County (LST-1170)^[2]	4 June 1973	Extant in 2010
TCG Serdar (L-402)^[3]		Ex-USS Westchester County (LST-1167)^[2]	27 August 1974	Extant in 2010

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
TCG Çakabey (NL-122)^[2]	Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul	30 June 1977

Sarucabey class tank landing ship:

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Sarucabey (NL-123)^[2]	Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul	30 July 1981	26 July 1984	Extant in 2010
TCG Karamürselbey (NL-124)^[2]	Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul	26 July 1984	26 July 1985	Extant in 2010

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
TCG Osman Gazi (NL-125)^[2]	Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul		27 July 1994	Extant in 2010
TCG Orhan Gazi (NL-126)^[2]	Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul		October 1994

Ç-107 - Ç-138^[2]

Ex-US LCU-501 class^[2]

Ç-205 - Ç-216^[2]

Ç-139 class^[2] - (currently categorized by the Turkish Navy as Ç-117 class)

↑ Cevat Ülkekul, "Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Türk Denizcileri ve Cumhuriyet Bahriyesinin Kuruluşu", Piri Reis Symposium, Office of Navigation of Hydrography and Oceanography. (Turkish)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 474.
1 2 Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 479.

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