Ottoman navy reorganizing according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 23 March 1914

An item dated Constantinople 22 March reported that the minister of navy started the reorganisation of the Ottoman navy and the rejuvenation of the officers corps. Rustem pasja under secretary was retired and replaced by Hakki bei. The latter intended to go to France for the delivery of four gunboats. New personnel was to be trained to man the dreadnoughts now being built in England. The naval agreement between England and Turkey would be a fait accompli as soon as the dreadnoughts were delivered.(1)

Note

1. These dreadnoughts were never delivered, see for instance http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.nl/2011/11/turkish-dreadnoughts-building-in.html, http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.nl/2011/11/turkish-battleships-taken-into-british.html and http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.nl/2011/11/turkish-dreadnoughts-building-in.html 

The Sultan Osman I became the British HMS Agincourt, originally she was ordered by Brazil as the Rio de Janeiro. The Reshad later Reshadieh became the British HMS Erin.