Multipurpose Amphibious Assault Ship, the largest military vessel to be constructed in Turkey (LHD) TCG Anatolia, construction starting ceremony was held at the Sedef Shipyard with Mr. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's participation.
 
Classification Services of Multipurpose Amphibious Assault Ship TCG Anatolia will be conducted by Turk Loydu. Vessel can accommodate one amphibian that can carry troops with the necessary combat and support vehicles to crisis areas without support from home base, can participate in the extraction operation with extraction tools to carry platform and rotatable with the heaviest NATO helicopters in the inventory-rotor Osprey aircraft of the night and the daytime operation It will also have a flight deck.
 
Furthermore, as vertical landing planes F-35B to hoover short distance from TCG Anadolu can be deployed, it will be able to turn from regional power transfer capability to the global power transmission.
 
Vessel may be used on Aegean, Black Sea and Mediterranean operational areas and the Indian Ocean (Arabian Peninsula of northern, western India) and Atlantic Ocean (western Europe, northwestern Africa) when necessary.