sentences:  "Piedmont" was decommissioned on 30 September 1982 and leased to the Turkish navy on 18 October 1982 and renamed "Derya" (A-576).On 6 August 1987 "Piedmont" was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and purchased outright by Turkey.On 17 August she was transferred to Turkey under the Security Assistance Program (SAP), Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) Section 516, Southern Region Amendment.