Turkisk sacrifice-names of their fallen in hillside cemetery 
In honour of Mehmet the universal Turkish soldier( equivalent of Tommy) 
frieze depicting Turkish infantry defending Chunuk bair 
Sacrifice on the way up. Looking down from Chunuk Bair to an allied cemetery for those who died on the way up
Looking down to Anzac Cove.Such a long way down but not much forward.The Kiwis got this far but exhausted british new army troops and Australians were unable to hold it under overwhelming suicidal Turkish wave attacks.Groups of defenders were wiped out completely.Had these heights been held by the allies they would have had total command of the peninsula. 
New Zealand memorial on the summit of Chunuk Bair. The inscription says-"From the far side of the world"
Kemal Ataturk the victor at Gallipoli who went on to lead Turkey in its struggle to becom a modern secular republic.
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