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What the title says. After World War 1 Germany and Austria-Hungary ultimately surrendered all their dreadnoughts. Goeben was a fast modern capital ship who had caused the Entente consternation on a strategic level for years. But somehow this German crewed ship was seemingly ignored when the Ottoman empire was subjected to a multinational occupation and survived a civil war intact. As another example of what happened to capital ships in the Black Sea at the end of WW1, the dreadnought battleship Volia was built by the Russians but captured and brought into service with a German crew in a (similar to the badly damaged Yavuz) semi-operational condition. The Volia was promptly seized by the British at the end of WW1. I can image all sorts of alternate history fates for the ex-Goeben (expended as target practice? joins Wrangel's fleet?) but surviving to be rebuilt by the Turkish navy is arguably weirder than any of those. Why didn't the Germans scuttle the Yavuz when the Ottomans surrendered? Why didn't the Ottomans destroy the ship themselves? Why didn't the British/French/Italians/Greeks seize the ship? How did it survive the Turkish War of Independence?