the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
First Lt Nazif
Çakmak, brother of Marshal Fevzi Çakmak was killed when he jumped into the
enemy trenches in front of his company during a bayonet charge, 26th July 1331
(8th August 1915)
Translated & transcribed from the Nazif Çakmak Memorial
(A similar monument stands near Alçitepe Hill dedicated to his older-
brother)
This website has been prepared by
There is an inscription on
his headstone that reads : "He was killed here", although the actual event
possibly took place 70 metres to the south where today the fountain and the
souvenir stalls are found, in the middle of what was no-man's land. The
symbolic grave was probaly built at the spot where it can be found now right on
the summit of Chunuk Bair to attract more attention.
"Gallipoli
Battlefield Guide", (Istanbul 2006), Gürsel Göncü & Şahin Aldoğan, p. 75