The survivors were transported home aboard two Japanese corvettes in October 1890, who were received by the sultan Abdul Hamid II in January 1891.

On September 15, 1891, the first anniversary of the disaster, a monument was erected 400 m (1,300 ft) far from the site of the accident, near the Kashinozaki Lighthouse of Kushimoto.

[1][2][3][4] A second memorial stone was erected by the Japanese-Turkish Trade Association on April 5, 1929, and visited by Emperor Hirohito on June 3 the same year.

Later, a corner was added to the museum devoted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic.

[2][7][8] The "Association of Turkish-Japanese Friendship and Frigate Ertuğrul Martyrs' in Ünye" erected a monument in Topyanı neighborhood of Ünye, a town at the Black Sea province of Ordu, northern Turkey in commemoration of native sailors, who were on board the sunken ship.