Touring the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
Touring the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
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In this episode, David takes us around the main sights of Gallipoli, Turkey - a peninsula in the Dardanelles Strait that has long been known for its strategic position on the main route between Europe and Asia. In other words, whoever or whatever wanted to pass through the Marmara Sea into Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) would first have to cross the Dardanelles Strait. Thus, Gallipoli has always been at the center of military action throughout the centuries.
On April 25th, 1915, the British tried to capture Constantinople by launching an attack on Gallipoli. This is known as the Gallipoli Campaign. Today, visiting Gallipoli reveals just how important the peninsula was for Allied forces to possess in WWI. Touring the Gallipoli Peninsula shows just how many casualties there were from around the world.
David starts his tour on the west side of the peninsula, at the 15th century Kilitbahir Castle, to see exactly how the Ottomans defended the Dardanelles Strait. The location of Kilitbahir Castle is a strategic one - it is positioned at the narrowest part of the strait.
Next up, David shows us the impressive Martyr’s Memorial to honor the 250,000+ Ottoman troops that perished in WWI. The memorial features a massive rectangular monument, sculptures and a expansive cemetery of symbolic tombstones for the Ottoman soldiers who died in the war. Each tombstone has the named of 36 soldiers.
Ottoman soldiers are not the only ones who died during the Gallipoli Campaign. David’s guide Emre takes David to see the Hellas Memorial dedicated to the British soldiers. Their names are inscribed on the sides of the monument’s square platform. Emre and David then go to the Anzac Cove Ceremonial Area, a beach where a memorial ceremony is held each year on April 25th to commemorate the Gallipoli Campaign. Anzac Coce was where Australian and New Zealand troops invaded Gallipoli.
Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial is another war memorial dedicated to the Australian soldiers who died in the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1925.
The last stop on Emre and David’s tour of Gallipoli takes them to Chunuk Bair Memorial dedicated to New Zealand soldiers.
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Touring the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
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Vlog #52: Gallipoli, Turkey || LEST WE FORGET
Day 186
We stayed at ANZAC House in Çanakkale and caught the ferry from Asia to Europe. We did a tour of Gallipoli which included Kabatepe War Museum, Brighton Beach, Anzac Cove, Ari Burn Cemetery, Anzac Commemoration Site, Lone Pine Australian Memorial, Johnston's Jolly, 57th Regiment Turkish Memorial and Chunuk Baird New Zealand Memorial.
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Another Visit to Gallipoli Oldrover's photos around Seddülbahir, Turkey (cape hellas monument)
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Entry from: Seddülbahir, Turkey
Entry Title: Another Visit to Gallipoli
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Ever since I have been in this area I have wanted to visit a monument to the war for control of the Gallipoli Peninsula which is visible from many a location quite far. It is a four-legged pedestal (or stone table, in the words of the Lonely Planet Turkey guide), the Canakkale Martyrs Memorial, that commemorates all the Turkish soldiers who fought and died at Gallipoli.
Thinking it might take all day to get there, I set out early from my pension in Tevfikiye. The mini-bus to Canakkale makes a stop just across the street from the Varol Pansiyon where I have been staying. I caught the 7:00am ride. It's usually fairly loaded with students.
The ride into Canakkale is in the order of 30 to 45 minutes. I walked to the ferry landing and jumped aboard the ferry waiting to cross to Kilitbahir. There was only about a 10 minute wait for the leaving.
(For anyone just tuning in, I have written before about the Turkish Travel Pixies. They are little sprites of my imagination. None that I have actually had visual sightings of, I hasten to add. But I imagine them--or her--as like Tinker Bell; with a magic wand that sprinkles good luck pixie dust on travelers in Turkey . . . . Well, me at least. Pay attention in this episode, and the next two).
Most of the passengers, I assume, are working commuters on their way to a job somewhere in the Gallipoli Peninsula, Eceabat (e-JAY-a-bat) or Gelibolu most likely. There were several mini-buses awaiting at the far side. I neglected to look at the signage on the single bus pointing in the direction I was going, and so after walking along for a spell--just trying to clear the inhabited area--I neglected to see it approach and pass me by.
But, after a pleasant enough walk in the warming day, as the fog burned off, I was hitching and was picked up by a young fellow. He spoke a few words of English, but mainly spoke to me in Turkish. And, from which I gathered the following: He was fairly recently out of his Turkish Army service. He had been in an anti-PKK (Kurdish separatist movement) combat unit in far, far southeastern Turkey, the region of Hakkari. I just checked the LP on this area. The 2007 edition says things had cooled there and it was a highly worthwhile place to visit.
Well, this ex-soldier said that it is all fine for me to be walking around here in the nice safe northwest, but as an American I wouldn't want to be in the southeast just now. Things have recently heated up, the Turkish army loosing many young soldiers. He was, I believe, describing to me seeing his comrade loose a leg below mid-thigh as a result of stepping on a mine. And, he said, the PKK don't like Americans. (The U.S., in seeking to crawl back into the good graces of the Turks, have been supplying intelligence on the PKK to them.)
The young man took me right up to the base of my goal for the day, the Canakkale Martyrs Memorial. It was about two hours and forty-five minutes since I stood on the corner outside my pension.
As I walked up the road to the memorial grounds I was greeted by the guard dog? And, if you want to call that a greeting.
I have repeatedly read of the crowds in the region on Anzac Day, April 25th. Along with others there are apparently thousands of Australian and New Zealand visitors to these various memorial sites to the Gallipoli Campaign. On this day, as I arrived, I was a solitary visitor. I read the words of Kemal Atatürk, which usually don't fail to constrict my throat just a little, demonstrating him a victorious warrior, and a compassionate humanist of the Enlightenment:
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives...You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You, the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away ...
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Photos from this trip:
1. Canakkale: Early Morning Ferry
2. Leaving Canakkale
3. A Mutable Icon
4. I Love Translations
5. Greetings to a Place of Peace
6. And a Place of Prayer
7. To Those Who Died
8. Continuing On
9. Another Newcomer to the Village
10. From Ottoman Castle to Cape Hellas
11. Cape Hellas: the Tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula
12. Just Another Vanity Shot
13. Canakkale Lamp Shop
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Sikhs first remembrance visit to Helles Memorial Gallipoli, Turkey
Sikhs first remembrance visit to Helles memorial in Gallipoli, Turkey. The visit was made on 7th October 2015.
Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey 3
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Another video Gallipoli, part 1
The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale (Turkish: Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916.
At ANZAC Cove for Gallipoli 100 years anniversary, APR 2015
At ANZAC Cove for Gallipoli 100 years anniversary, APR 2015.
At the time I filmed this it was approximately 1800 on the 24th of April 2015 and there were 2500 - 3000 people at ANZAC Cove.
By dawn the next morning 10,000 people were packed into this area.
Well worth the trip for the sense of National Pride you feel and to honour the memory of the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for Australia and her people.
Lest We Forget.
Remembering Gallipoli: Britain's Prince Charles lays wreaths at memorial
World leaders have gathered at the World War I battle sites of the Gallipoli campaign to mark 100 years since the British-led invasion.
Representatives of countries that faced off in one of the most iconic events of the war honoured the dead in a joint ceremony on Friday, on the eve of the centenary since troops landed on the beaches.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Britain's Prince Charles laid wreaths at a memorial for fallen Turkish soldiers at Gallipoli, before listening to a r…
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Vedica Kant Indian soldiers at Gallipoli
Turkish War Memorial Wreath Laying
Following our wreath laying at Helles we visited the Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial and laid a wreath to the brave Turkish soldiers who lost their lives in the Gallipoli conflict.
'To the men of Turkey and the Ottoman. May you rest in peace where ever you lay. Men who once fought as enemies now lie together as brothers.'
National Anthems at Gallipoli 2014
Turkish, New Zealand & Australian National Anthems at Gallipoli Dawn Service 2014
Turkish Rowers at the Gallipoli 100
Turkish Rowers training to be part of the Gallipoli 100
In Remembrance of Gallipoli Campaign , B COY , 2RG
1915 Gallipoli Campaign , ko samjhana ma bir sahid haru prati maoun dharan gardai B Coy , 2RGR in the united kingdom. One of the greatest and most memorable fight fought by the Gurkhas.
What to do with the Turkish reserves at Gallipoli?
Scot ponders what to do at Cape Helles, April 25th
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Gallipoli Battlefield (turkish.com)
Featured on Turkish.com on the travel guide page for Gallipoli
Cape Helles Memorial Wreath Laying
The CEWM Gallipoli Team laying a wreath at the Helles Memorial on Sunday 19th April 2015. Having completed the Essex Jailbreak 2015 the day before we took the opportunity to lay a wreath in remembrance of the men who died here,
L/Cpl Stanley Butcher, 5th Suffolk Regt. KIA 12.8.15
Man of Colne Engaine.
'Rest well wherever you lay. Remembered and not forgotten,'
We also laid wreaths at the Turkish Memorial and the ANZAC Memorial (see separate videos).
The Turkish Soldiers monument in Beersheba Israel
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera zahigo25@walla.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
The memorial was built in October of 2002 by the Turkish Republic and the Beersheba Municipality in memory of 298 Turkish soldiers killed in battle in the city between the years 1914-1918. Israeli and Turkish flags are stationed nearby.
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial - Inaugural Annual Commemorative Service
Inaugural Annual Commemorative Service, organised by the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee on August 13th, 2016, at Foote Street Reserve, Albert Park, Melbourne.
Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial unveiling 8th August 2015 Channel 7 News Report
Channel 7 News report of the unveiling of the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial in Foote Street Square Albert Park on the 8th August 2015. Sculpture created by Peter Corlett OAM. Thanks to Nick McCallum and Channel 7 for making this video of our great event available to the wider community.
9:05 10.11.18 - Turkey stands still for Atatürk
Every year, on the anniversary of Atatürk's death, for a minute or two, Turkey stops what it's doing, and stands still out of respect for Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, who is often called the father of the Turks. It's a beautiful thing to watch, the most visible place to see it of course is on the freeway, where most of the cars stop, drivers get out, and stand at attention. - This video was taken from the Metrobüs pedestrian overpass west of Mecidiyeköy station, looking back towards Mecidiyeköy, Fulya, and Gayrettepe.
CWGC Get to know: Gallipoli. Episode 5. The Indian contribution (Turkish subtitles version)
This video looks at the contribution of the Indian troops in Gallipoli. (Please note this version has Turkish subtitles).