Adatepe-class destroyer

The Adatepe class, also called the Kocatepe class, was a pair of destroyers built for the Turkish Navy by the Italian company Ansaldo of Genoa in 1931. They were the first part of the re-armament programme of the Turkish Navy, which began after the end of the Greco-Turkish War and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The design was based on the contemporary Italian Folgore class, but the Turkish ships carried their guns in single mountings instead of the twin turrets of the Italian ships. To make room for that change the hulls were lengthened, and the ships had two funnels where the Italian design had one.