Tersane Island

This guide to Tersane Island in the Gulf of Fethiye, Muğla, opens with the Ottoman Navy's World War One search for a hidden place to build ships, and how a small forested island once called Telandria became a hidden dockyard instead. It traces the disputed claim that the shipyard's graving docks are actually much older Seljuk work, and follows the story down into the water, where a Greek village emptied in the 1923 population exchange now lies submerged. Divers today swim over its drowned houses, tombs and boathouses.