Cyprus Navy

Naval Command of Cyprus
Διοίκηση Ναυτικού Κύπρου (Greek) Kıbrıs Deniz Kuvvetleri (Turkish)
Cyprus Naval Command's emblem
Founded	July 1964
Country	Cyprus
Branch	Navy
Size	462 personnel (2014) 10 warships: 6 patrol boats 2 attack craft 2 speedboats
Part of	Cypriot National Guard
Engagements	Battle of Tylliria (Cyprus 1964) Turkish invasion of Cyprus 2024 Lebanon Migration crisis
Commanders
Current commander	Commodore Minas Solomonides
Notable commanders	Lieutenant Eleftherios Tsomakis Commodore Andreas Ioannidis
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The Cyprus Naval Command (Greek: Διοίκηση Ναυτικού Κύπρου, Turkish: Kıbrıs Deniz Kuvvetleri) (also known as the Cyprus Navy or Cypriot Navy) is the armed sea wing of the Cyprus National Guard. The Cypriot Navy has the primary mission of defending the maritime borders of the Republic of Cyprus, but is currently unable to access the waters around Northern Cyprus, which have been controlled by the Turkish Navy since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This force does not possess any capital ships or other major warships, but is equipped with patrol boats,^[1] landing craft, surface-to-surface missile systems and integrated radar systems, as well as SEALs-type naval underwater demolitions units.