Turkey/Ottoman Empire
- Battlecruisers
- Yavuz (ex-Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974
- Protected cruisers
- Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
- Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911
- Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
- Mecidiye (1905) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
- Light cruisers
- Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918
- Torpedo cruisers
- Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
- Berk-i Satvet (1906)
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