In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG "Yavuz" ("Ship of the Turkish Republic "Yavuz""); she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938. "Yavuz" remained the flagship of the Turkish Navy until she was decommissioned in 1950. She was scrapped in 1973, after the West German government declined an invitation to buy her back from Turkey. She was the last surviving ship built by the Imperial German Navy, and the longest-serving dreadnought-type ship in any navy.