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Turkey announced on Monday the initiation of the renowned Mavi Vatan (Blue Motherland) military exercise on 27 February. The Turkish press considers Blue Motherland a formal rehearsal of military operations which underscore the limits and potential capabilities of Turkish armed forces.

The "Blue Motherland", the largest exercise "in the history of the Turkish Republic" according to the headquarters of the Turkish armed forces, began at dawn on Wednesday. The start of the "rehearsal for war", as the Turkish media described it, was at 5:00 on the morning of February 27, with the exercise being completed in ten days on 8 March. The first images from the bases of Aksaz - opposite Rhodes and Gjoljuk, in the Marmara Sea: