Why did Britain seize the Ottoman battleships?

Why did Britain take over battleships that had been paid for by the Ottoman public?

Britain wanted additional capital ships for wartime losses and did not trust an Ottoman government already closely aligned with German officers.

Requisitioning the ships was a blunder in relations with the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, Britain wanted to expand the Grand Fleet's reserve of capital ships and already doubted Ottoman neutrality because German officers held influential posts. From that perspective, delivering modern battleships after war had begun looked riskier than absorbing the political cost of taking them.