TCG Bozcaada (F-500)

TCG Bozcaada (F-500) is the lead ship of the six Burak class ASW corvettes of the Turkish Navy. She was named after Bozcaada Island, which is in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Bozcaada is an ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso warship.

Service history
The ship was built in 1978 in France and served as F787 Commandant de Pimodan in the French Navy. She was transferred to the Turkish Navy in 2001.

On August 2, 2012, she was tasked to escort the Turkish cargo vessel MV Dadalı on the first leg of her voyage to Somalia from Port of Mersin to Suez Port in eastern Mediterranean Sea. The cargo ship carried aid materials dispatched by the Turkish Red Crescent to Somalia, which was drought stricken as a result of the 2011 East Africa drought. S was escorted following her passage after Suez Canal by TCG Gemlik (F-492).