Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul Monument Opening Commemorative Badge/Ertuğrul Anıtı'nın Açılışı Madalya/エルトゥールル号吊魂碑 捺幕式記念章

Obverse

Turkish and Japanese National Flags.

Reverse

Ertuğrul Anıtı Açılışı - Ertuğrul Monument Opening

3-6-1937 - June 3, 1937

エルトゥールル号 - Ertuğrul

吊魂碑 - Monument to Perished

捺幕式記念 - Opening Ceremony Commemorative

 

All known badges were manufactured by Naigai Medal Works in Tokyo.

1st case variation.

贈 - Gift

土耳古大使 - Turkish Ambassador

 

2nd case variation.

Naigai workshop label.

 

3rd case variation.

Attached note says that this badge was delivered to the Turkish Ambassador in Tokyo Hüsrev Gerede https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüsrev_Gerede

 

Ertuğrul, launched in 1863, was a sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. While returning from a goodwill voyage to Japan in 1890, she encountered a typhoon off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, subsequently drifted into a reef and sank. The shipwreck resulted in the loss of 533 sailors and officers, including Rear Admiral Ali Osman Pasha. Only 69 sailors and officers survived and returned home later aboard two Japanese corvettes. The event is still commemorated as a foundation stone of Japanese-Turkish friendship.​

Atop a hill on Kii Ōshima (Wakayama Prefecture)overlooking the site of the disaster stands a monument to the lives lost there. The town of Kushimoto holds a memorial service there every five years in honor of the victims.

 

Modern badge of Association of Turkish-Japanese Friendship and Frigate Ertuğrul Martyrs' in Ünye.