JOINT HEADQUARTERS SOUTHEAST CREST
JOINT HEADQUARTERS SOUTHEAST

Izmir, Turkey

EXERCISE COOPERATIVE DETERMINATION - 27 NOVEMBER 1999

 

RIGHT:  General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast (left), and Army Corps General Constantin Degeratu, Chief of the Romanian General Staff, hold discussions at the Romanian Ministry of Defense during Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

LEFT:  General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast (left), and Army Corps General Constantin Degeratu, Chief of the Romanian General Staff, salute during the Romanian Ministry of Defense's official welcoming ceremony for General Akbas during Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

 RIGHT:  General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast, signs the guestbook during his visit to the Turkish Embassy in Bucharest, Romania.

 

LEFT:  Army Corps General Constantin Degeratu, Chief of the Romanian General Staff (left), and General Tamer Akbas, Commander, Joint Command Southeast, toast each other during the the reception General Akbas hosted for all participants of Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

 LEFT: Major General Zannie O. Smith, Deputy Commander, Joint Command Southeast (center), receives a briefing on CD-99 Public Information operations from Ms. Catalina Vladescu (far left) while (from left to right) Brigadier General R?fk? Durusoy, Lieutenant Colonel Volkan Akben and Brigadier General Petre Botezatu look on.

RIGHT:  Romanian honor guards hold the flags of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macdonia (left) and the Republic of Georgia during rehearsal for the CD-99 Opening Ceremony.  Contingents of soldiers from participating nations are positioned behind their respective national flags.

LEFT: Polivalenta Hall in Bucharest, Romania, site of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for Exercise Cooperative Determination 99.

 

RIGHT: LTC George David, Deputy Press Information Centre Director (far left), discusses media issue with media operations chief MAJ Steve Shappell (center) and Ms. Alev Bilgin.  MAJ Deniz Kanyar, a communications officer, is in foreground at computer.