Mustafa ErtuÄŸrul Aker

Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker (* 1892 in Chania, Crete, † in Antalya, 1961) was a Turkish officer. In the Ottoman army, he held the rank of captain ( Yüzbaşı ).

Mustafa Ertuğrul was born in 1892 in Chania at the time of the Ottoman Empire belonging island of Crete. He graduated from the Military Academy in Istanbul. During the First World War in January 1917, he succeeded in sinking of the British aircraft mother ship HMS Ben -my- Chree. He also sank the French Aviso Paris II and the naval trawler Alexandra. In the Greco- Turkish War he was wounded in the province of Aydin 1919. He had to acknowledge his military service and died in 1961 in Antalya.

Two of the ships sunk by him are yet to Kemer in the Mediterranean. In Kemer Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker Park to be named and a monument to him was erected. Based on custom built by him diaries and notes the book Ben bir Türk zabitiyim published in 2004 ( I am a Turkish officer ).