Transfer To Turkish Navy
Roan was then transferred to the Turkish government, where she was known as the TCG Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak (D 351) in the Turkish Navy. She took part in Operation Atilla during Cyprus conflict in 1974. At 21 July 1974, together with Turkish destroyer D-354 Kocatepe, she was subjected to friendly fire from Turkish warplanes and heavily demaged after being mistaken for a Greek ship. She was stricken and scrapped in April 1995.
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