1940s in Turkey - 1942 in Turkey, 1948 in Turkey, SS Kurtulu?, Varl?k Vergisi, Turkey at the 1948 Winter Olympics (Paperback)

Chapters: 1942 in Turkey, 1948 in Turkey, Ss Kurtulu?, Varl?k Vergisi, Turkey at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is about the Turkish freighter SS Kurtulu. For ?stanbul neighborhood of the same name, see Kurtulu. SS Kurtulu was a Turkish cargo ship which became famous for her humanitarian role in carrying food aid during the great famine Greece suffered under the Occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany in World War II. She sank on 20 February 1942 in the Sea of Marmara during her fifth voyage from ?stanbul, Turkey to Piraeus, Greece. The steamer Kurtulu was built by Caird