sentences:  The transfer of the academy to a more convenient location arose as a necessity, due to increasing demands of the Turkish Navy over personnel and place as well as transportation problems of the island of Heybeliada.A new campus was projected over land at Tuzburnu peninsula on the northern shore of Marmara Sea in Tuzla district of Istanbul.On July 28, 1977, Fahri Korutürk, President of Turkey and an alumnus of the Naval School, laid the foundation.