Japan-Turkey Society

Japanese military ship at Naval Museum

A ceremony on Dec. 10 at the Istanbul Naval Museum honored the dramatic rescue of shipwrecked Ottoman sailors by the residents of the Japanese town of Kushimoto in 1890.

The Japan-Turkey Society presented a model of the Japanese military ship "Hiei" to the museum in Istanbul's Be?ikta? neighborhood, in memory of the dramatic fate of the Ottoman frigate "Ertu?rul."