Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker
Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker (* 1892 in Chania on Crete , † 1961 in Antalya ) was a Turkish officer . In the Ottoman Army he held the rank of captain (Yüzbaşı).
Mustafa Ertuğrul was born in 1892 in Chania on the island of Crete, then part of the Ottoman Empire . He graduated from the Military Academy in Istanbul. During the First World War he succeeded in sinking the British aircraft mother ship HMS Ben-my-Chree in January 1917 . He continued to sink the French Aviso Paris II and the naval trawler Alexandra . He was wounded in the Aydin province in 1919 in the Greco-Turkish War . He had to quit military service and died in Antalya in 1961.
Two of the ships sunk by him are still in front of Kemer in the Mediterranean. In Kemer, a park is named after Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker and a monument has been erected for him. The book Ben bir Türk zabitiyim (I am a Turkish officer) was published in 2004 based on the diaries and notes he had made .
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| SURNAME | Aker, Mustafa Ertuğrul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chania in Crete |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1961 |
| Place of death | Antalya |