In his letter dated Istanbul, 2 December 1939 No. 491 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland that on board of the Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz (1) was a small uprising and 15-20 men of the technical personnel was arrested. Turkish authorities claimed that communist activities were to blame. The German Marineattaché thought that the worse treatment and deficient accommodation were the real reasons.
Note
1. The Yavuz Sultan Selim, building ordered as the German SMS Goeben of the Moltke-class on 8 April 1909, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany on 28 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911, commissioned on 2 July 1912, transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, renamed TCG Yavuz in 1936, decommissioned in 1950 and broken up in 1973.
Source
Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for , Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.
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