British admiral Limpus designed Turkish naval program according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1913-1914 no. 8

Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types. 

Eveleigh Nash, London, England, 1915. 

An item reported that the shipbuilding program of the British admiral Limpus (1) made for the Turkish government consisted of building 2-23.000 ton battleships, 1 heavy and 1 small cruiser, 4 destroyers and 1 submarine. The battleship Rio de Janeiro bought from Brazil was renamed Sultan Osmani.(2)

Notes
1. This must be Arthur Henry Limpus (7 June 1863 St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, England-Alassio, Italy 3 November 1931).
2. This must be the Sultan Osman-1 Evvel which was seized in August 1914 by the United Kingdom and commissioned as the HMS Agincourt.