The ''Adatepe'' class or ''Kocatepe'' classRobert Gardiner, ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946'', Naval Institute Press, 1980, p. 407. were two

destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...

s built for the Turkish Navy by the Italian company,

Ansaldo Ansaldo Energia S.p.A. is an Italian power engineering company. It is based in Genoa, Italy. The absorbed parent company, Gio. Ansaldo & C., started in 1853. It was taken over by Leonardo S.p.A. In 2011, Leonardo S.p.A. sold 45% stake in An ...

of Genoa in 1931. These ships were the first part of the re-armament program for the Turkish Navy which began after the end of the Greco-Turkish War and the establishment of the

Republic of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. The ''Adatepe'' class were based on contemporary Italian but had guns mounted in single mountings rather than twin turrets of the Italian ships. The hulls were lengthened to accommodate this change and the ships had two funnels rather than the single funnel used by the Italian ships. Turkish destroyer Adatepe

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* {{Adatepe class destroyer Destroyers of the Turkish Navy Destroyer classes Ships built by Gio. Ansaldo & C. Italy–Turkey relations