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Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum

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

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The Kushimoto Turkish Memorial and Museum (Japanese: トルコ軍艦遭難記念碑), aka Frigate Ertuğrul Memorial and Museum (Turkish: 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.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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