Remember The Yavuz!
January, 1968
Several Months Ago, I received what appeared to be the biggest assignment of my career. The editors of a leading biweekly national magazine sent me a classified ad from The Wall Street Journal announcing that the Turkish government was offering to sell a surplus battleship named the Sultan Yavuz Selim. (I later learned the Turks called it by the diminutive "Yavuz," much the way Americans refer to the U.S.S. Missouri as the "Mo.") The Yavuz was moored at the Poyraz wharf, the...
