Mustafa Ertuğrul

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Mustafa Ertuğrul's memoirs
Mustafa Ertuğrul's memoirs

Mustafa Ertuğrul (full name after the 1934 Law on Family Names in Turkey; Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker) was a Turkish officer during the World War I and the Turkish War of Independence who accomplished a number of brilliant military feats, the most notable being the sinking of the British aircraft carrier Ben-my-Chree with shore fire.

He was born in 1892 in Hania to Turkish Cretan parents and attended military college in İstanbul.

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