NATO, PFP members to hold joint military exercise in Istanbul!

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29 Nov. 1997

 NATO, PFP members to hold joint military exercise in Istanbul next month
 
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 Turkish Daily News
 
 Ankara - Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and
 participants in the Alliance's Partnership for Peace (PFP) program
 will hold a joint military exercise between Dec. 1-5 in Istanbul,
 military sources told the Turkish Daily News on Friday.
 
 Forces from NATO members Turkey, Portugal and the United States, along
 with troops from PFP participants Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria,
 Georgia, Hungary, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
 Poland, Romania and Ukraine, will take part in the exercise, named
 Cooperative Demand '97 (CD-97).
 
 The major aim of the exercise will be to train NATO and PFP commanders
 and headquarter personnel in preventing confrontation with units with
 different military equipment, organization and doctrine, the sources
 said.
 
 In order to create a common understanding of PFP's Operation to
 Support Peace concept and improve the harmony between different
 military systems, the training will also include procedure drills for
 headquarter personnel on the execution of humanitarian assistance by
 multinational forces.
 
 Turkish Brig Gen. Mehmet Karatas, the operational bureau chief of
 NATO's LANDSOUTHEAST command, and Brig Gen. Suleyman Canpolat, the
 66th Armored Brigade Commander, will be the directors of the exercise,
 the sources stated.
 
 NATO's Partnership for Peace program was designed to fill a security
 vacuum in Europe after the collapse of communism. The NATO allies want
 to upgrade PFP to help smooth the ruffled feathers of countries which
 will fail to gain membership to the Alliance next year.
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