Film on Ertuğrul frigate out next fall
ISTANBUL
The film is being made in commemoration of an Ottoman frigate that sank off an island around the Japanese town of Kushimoto in 1890 while returning from a goodwill voyage to Japan.
The Ertuğrul Frigate was sent by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II to give a gift to the Japanese emperor. While returning from the voyage, the frigate encountered a typhoon off the coast of the Wakayama Prefecture and sank on Sept. 16, 1890. The accident resulted in the loss of 533 sailors.