Turkey

Turkey (TUR) Ship Namelists

Source file: common/units/names_ships/TUR_ship_names.txt

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Overview

The Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) maintained an ambitious naval modernization program across the interwar and World War II eras, grounded in the proud maritime heritage of the Ottoman Navy (Osmanlı Donanması) and the lessons of the Turkish War of Independence. Led by the iconic battlecruiser TCG Yavuz (the fleet's flagship and strategic anchor), modern destroyers built in Italy and Britain, and an indigenous submarine expansion program initiated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish Naval Forces (Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri) guarded the vital Turkish Straits (Boğazlar), the Aegean, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean.

In vanilla Hearts of Iron IV, Turkish naval namelists suffered from severe inaccuracies and machine-translation calques:

• Calqued Fallback Names: Destroyers used "%d. Yok Edici" (a comic Google-translated calque translating "Destroyer" as terminator/annihilator) rather than authentic Turkish naval terminology Muhrip ("Muhrip %d"), while light cruisers used "%d. Isik Kruvazör" (translating "Light" as illumination/sunlight rather than displacement).
• Misallocated Ship Hulls: Atatürk's Ay-class submarines (Batıray, Yıldıray, Saldıray) were misplaced into Battlecruisers and Battleships alongside a fictional hybrid invention ("Yavuzay"), while the super-dreadnought Reşadiye (HMS Erin) was assigned to Light Cruisers and cruiser Midilli (SMS Breslau) to Battleships.
• Diacritic & Typographical Errors: Complete absence of Turkish diacritics (ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş, ü, İ), duplicate listings with and without spaces, and garbled names like "Alp Arslam" and "Maresal Fevzi cakmak".

Immersive Ship Names Expanded provides complete, historically and linguistically authentic namelists for Turkey, featuring 7 expanded ship-type specific groups and 11 universal thematic pools for the Ship Designer. All Turkish ships carry the historical prefix TCG (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi).

Scope notes:

• Submarines: the vessel names and the corsair captains (Reisler) are attested: the battle names of the first Republican boats, the Ay-class names (Atılay, Saldıray, Batıray, Yıldıray) with their successors Doğanay and Dolunay, and the three Ottoman submarines (Abdülhamid, Abdülmecid, Müstecip Onbaşı). The marine-fauna section and the descriptors Hilal, Yeniay, Derin, Dalgıç and Sualtı are plausible extrapolation from real Turkish words for a large wartime fleet. Invented extensions of the -ay pattern are not listed.
• Admirals & Corsairs: every entry is an individually verified kapudan pasha, corsair or naval officer. Names that could not be traced to a specific person were removed rather than kept as filler.
• One personal form per class: each sultan, founder or admiral appears under one personal form in a hull group (the battlecruisers carry Yavuz, the battleships Atatürk and Sultan Osman-ı Evvel). The navy's historic -iye ship names derived from sultans (Reşadiye, Orhaniye, Osmaniye) are kept beside them. City names stay with the light cruisers, while the battleships take sovereigns, historic ironclads and realm-level names.

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Namelist Groups

Ship-Type Specific Category

Group Tag	Type	Ship Types	Sample Names
TUR_DD_HISTORICAL	Destroyers & Escorts	ship_hull_light destroyer	Kocatepe, Adatepe, Tınaztepe, Zafer, Yücetepe, Savaştepe, Alçıtepe, Anıttepe, Metristepe, Duatepe, Demirhisar, Sultanhisar, Muavenet, Gayret, Yarhisar, Sivrihisar, Peyk, Berk, Alp Arslan, Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, Kılıç Ali Paşa, Piyale Paşa, Gaziantep, Gelibolu
TUR_SS_HISTORICAL	Submarines	ship_hull_submarine submarine ship_hull_midget_submarine	Birinci İnönü, İkinci İnönü, Sakarya, Dumlupınar, Atılay, Saldıray, Batıray, Yıldıray, Gür, Doğanay, Dolunay, Oruç Reis, Murat Reis, Burak Reis, Seydi Ali Reis, Hızır Reis, Piri Reis, Turgut Reis, Uluç Ali Reis, Preveze, Cerbe, Hilal, Yeniay, Derin
TUR_CL_HISTORICAL	Light Cruisers	ship_hull_cruiser light_cruiser	Hamidiye, Mecidiye, Midilli, İzmir, Samsun, Trabzon, Sinop, Mersin, İskenderun, Antalya, Giresun, Rize, Fethiye, Bodrum, Çeşme, Alanya, Mudanya, Ayvalık, Zonguldak, Hopa, Bartın, İnebolu, Marmaris, Keşan, Balıkesir, Peyk-i Şevket
TUR_CA_HISTORICAL	Heavy Cruisers & Coastal Defense	ship_hull_cruiser heavy_cruiser	Çanakkale, Gelibolu, Seddülbahir, Kilitbahir, Kumkale, Boğaziçi, Kafkas, Anadolu, Rumeli, Anadolu Kavağı, Rumeli Kavağı, Gölcük, Tuzla, Gebze, Marmara, Trakya, Ege, Akdeniz, Karadeniz, Anafartalar, Conkbayırı, Arıburnu, Kanlısırt
TUR_BB_HISTORICAL	Battleships & Capital Ships	ship_hull_heavy battleship	Reşadiye, Sultan Osman-ı Evvel, Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Barbaros Hayreddin, Turgut Reis, Mesudiye, Mahmudiye, Âsâr-ı Şevket, Necm-i Şevket, Atatürk, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Alp Arslan, Âsâr-ı Tevfik, Orhaniye, Osmaniye, Aziziye, Feth-i Bülend, Mukaddeme-i Hayır, Avnillah
TUR_BC_HISTORICAL	Battlecruisers	ship_hull_heavy battle_cruiser	Yavuz, Yıldırım Bayezid, Attila, Timur, Subutay, Cengiz Han, Kılıç Arslan, Gazi Umur Bey, Çaka Bey, Tuğrul Bey, Şimşek, Kasırga, Bora, Tayfun, Fırtına, Poyraz, Çağrı Bey, Babür Şah, Baybars, Battal Gazi
TUR_CV_HISTORICAL	Aircraft Carriers	ship_hull_carrier carrier	Bandırma, Cumhuriyet, İstiklal, Kurtuluş, Zafer, Vatan, Hürriyet, Gökdoğan, Bozdoğan, Şahin, Kartal, Sungur, Doğan, Tuğrul Kuşu, Hüma, Gökler, Gökyüzü, Anka, Karakuş, Hâkimiyet-i Milliye

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Universal Thematic Topic Category (Ship Designer)

Universal selection pools available for any ship hull or squadron:

Group Tag	Topic Name	Ship Types	Sample Names
TUR_RULERS	Sultans & Khans	Universal	Osman Gazi, Orhan Gazi, Murad Hüdavendigâr, Yıldırım Bayezid, Fatih Sultan Mehmed, Yavuz Sultan Selim, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Alp Arslan, Tuğrul Bey, Kılıç Arslan, Alaeddin Keykubad, Attila, Bilge Kağan
TUR_ADMIRALS	Admirals & Corsairs	Universal	Çaka Bey, Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa, Turgut Reis, Piri Reis, Oruç Reis, Kılıç Ali Paşa, Piyale Paşa, Seydi Ali Reis, Murat Reis, Burak Reis, Salih Reis, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Paşa, Karamürsel Bey, Rauf Orbay, Kemal Reis
TUR_CITIES	Cities & Ports	Universal	İstanbul, İzmir, Ankara, Bursa, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon, Samsun, Mersin, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Konya, Eskişehir, Kayseri, Edirne, Çanakkale, Sinop, İskenderun, Tekirdağ, Zonguldak, Balıkesir, Kocaeli, Manisa
TUR_PROVINCES	Provinces & Regions	Universal	Anadolu, Rumeli, Trakya, Ege, Akdeniz, Karadeniz, Marmara, Kapadokya, Kilikya, Hüdavendigâr, Aydın, Saruhan, Karesi, Menteşe, Kastamonu, Sivas, Erzurum, Diyarbekir, Trabzon, Halep, Musul
TUR_RIVERS	Rivers	Universal	Fırat, Dicle, Kızılırmak, Yeşilırmak, Sakarya, Seyhan, Ceyhan, Gediz, Büyük Menderes, Küçük Menderes, Meriç, Aras, Çoruh, Asi, Göksu, Susurluk, Tunca, Ergene, Bakırçay, Dalaman, Manavgat
TUR_MOUNTAINS	Mountains & Hills	Universal	Ağrı, Erciyes, Süphan, Kaçkar, Toros, Uludağ, Palandöken, Hasan Dağı, Ilgaz, Cilo, Munzur, Yıldız, Murat Dağı, Nemrut, Kocatepe, Adatepe, Tınaztepe, Metristepe, Duatepe, Kaz Dağı
TUR_BATTLES	Historic Battles	Universal	Preveze, Cerbe, Çanakkale, Dumlupınar, Sakarya, İnönü, Malazgirt, Mohaç, Niğbolu, Varna, Kosova, Ridaniye, Mercidabık, Çaldıran, Otlukbeli, Büyük Taarruz, Anafartalar, Sırpsındığı
TUR_BIRDS	Birds	Universal	Kartal, Şahin, Doğan, Atmaca, Gökdoğan, Bozdoğan, Sungur, Çakır, Kerkenez, Akbaba, Kuzgun, Tuğrul, Balıkkartalı, Kızılşahin, Tavşancıl, Şah Kartal, Kaya Kartalı, Turna
TUR_FISH	Aquatic Life	Universal	Yunus, Levrek, Orfoz, Lüfer, Palamut, Kefal, Kalkan, Torik, Zargana, Çipura, Barbun, Uskumru, Alabalık, Vatoz, Kolyoz, Sardalya, Hamsi, Mercan, Sinarit, Lagos, Trança
TUR_BEASTS	Fauna & Predators	Universal	Bozkurt, Kurt, Aslan, Kaplan, Pars, Sırtlan, Ayı, Vaşak, Panter, Çakal, Tilki, Anadolu Parsı, Yaban Domuzu, Karaca, Dağ Keçisi, Alageyik, Karakulak, Porsuk
TUR_VIRTUES	Virtues & Ideals	Universal	İstiklal, Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Vatan, Zafer, Gayret, Cesaret, Muavenet, Sadakat, Metanet, Kahramanlık, Şeref, Namus, Azim, Adalet, Birlik, Fedakârlık, Hâkimiyet, Millî İrade