Date: Issue 140 - June 2025
International Anatolian Phoenix - 2024 Exercise was held between 12 May - 23 May 2025, with the participation of Turkey, the USA, Germany, Azerbaijan, Italy, Qatar, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Saudi Arabia, hosted by the Anadolu Kartalı Eğitim Merkezi (Anatolian Eagle Training Center Command /AETC) at the 3. Ana Jet Üs Komutanlığı (3rd Main Jet Base Command), Konya.
The AETC is a high-level training center, providing realistic combat training opportunities to TurAF Squadrons and friendly countries in a high threat environment, more sophisticated than the unit level training on aspects such as the size of the airspace, tactical ranges, threat emitters and number of participants.