| Battle of Şarköy | |||||||
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| Part of First Balkan War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Bulgaria |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Gen. Stiliyan Kovachev |
Major Enver bey | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown |
19,858 officers and men, 3,744 animals, 15,405 rifles, 16 machine guns, 48 artillery, 23,542 ammunition boxes[1] Naval: Torpedo cruiser Berk-i Satvet, cruiser Mecidiye, battleships Turgut Reis and Barbaross Hayreddin[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Light[citation needed] |
882 killed, 1,842 wounded, 55 missing Total: 2,779[2] | ||||||
The Battle of Şarköy or Sarkoy operation (Bulgarian language: Битка при Шаркьой , Turkish language: Şarköy Çıkarması) took place between 9 and 11 February 1913 during the First Balkan War between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans attempted a counter-attack, but were defeated by the Bulgarians at the Battles of Bulair and Şarköy.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edward J. Erickson, Defeat in Detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912–1913, Westport, Praeger, 2003, p. 263.
- ↑ Turgut Özakman: Vahidettin, M. Kemal ve milli mücadele: yalanlar, yanlışlar, yutturmacalar, Bilgi Yayınevi, 1997, ISBN 9754946698, page 91-93 (Turkish)
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