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Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum

Kushimoto, Japan · built 1974

Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum
Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum, aka Frigate Ertuğrul Memorial and Museum (Ertuğrul Anıtı ve Müzesi), is a monument and a museum to commemorate the sailors of the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul, which sunk in 1890 off Kushimoto, Wakayama in Japan.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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