The A class is a class of minehunter vessels in the Turkish Navy.

In 1999, the German shipyards Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal-class ships for the Turkish Navy, a purchase worth US$630 million.

While the first vessel was built in Germany, later ships were constructed by the Istanbul Naval Shipyard.

[1] The Turkish Navy has become the second naval force in the world, after the German Navy, to use a non-magnetic steel hull in its minehunter vessels.