Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, Commander, Combined Maritime Forces, greets Turkish Navy Rear Adm. Caner Bener

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MANAMA, Bahrain (May 3, 2009) Vice Adm. Bill Gortney, Commander, Combined Maritime Forces, greets Turkish Navy Rear Adm. Caner Bener during a Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 ceremony in which Bener assumed command of the counter piracy task force. Looking on are Haldun Otman, Turkish Ambassador to Bahrain, and Turkish Vice Adm. Murat Bilgel. Turkey is the second nation to command CTF 151, which was established to conduct counter piracy operations under a mission-based mandate throughout the Combined Maritime Forces area of responsibility.

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