THE "STOP TRAVELLER" ETCHING
"DUR YOLCU" YAZISI
last updated : 17/11/06
Stop wayfarer
! Unbeknownst to you this ground
You come and tread on, is where an epoch lies;
Bend down and lend your ear, for this silent mound
Is the place where the heart of a nation sighs.
From the poem “to a traveller” by Necettin Halil Onan
transcribed from the
Turkish yearbook of Gallipoli Studies, (Çanakkale 2003), p.1
(translated by
S. Tanvir Wasti)
IF STONES COULD SPEAK
ALONG THE DARDANELLES (EUROPE)
This website has been prepared by
back to if stones could speak
the first authentic hotel on the Gallipoli peninsula