Battle of Şarköy
Battles of the First Balkan War
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| Battle of Şarköy | |||||||
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| Part of First Balkan War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Bulgaria |  Ottoman Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| 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 Barbaros Hayreddin[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 882 killed, 1,842 wounded, 55 missing Total: 2,779[2] | ||||||
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First Balkan War
Bulgarian Front
- Kardzhali
- Kirk Kilisse
- Lule Burgas
- Merhamli
- Kaliakra
- 1st Çatalca
- Bulair
- Şarköy
- Adrianople
- 2nd Çatalca
Serbian and Montenegrin front
Greek front
- Lemnos Island
- Sarantaporo
- Yenidje
- Pente Pigadia
- Sorovich
- Himara
- Lesbos
- Chios
- Driskos
- Elli
- Korytsa
- Lemnos
- Bizani
The Battle of Şarköy or Sarkoy operation (Bulgarian: Битка при Шаркьой, Turkish: 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
- ^ a b 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 (in Turkish)
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