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the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
But not only Istanbul University has lost some of its prime students. In the "Turkish yearbook of Gallipoli Studies", (Çanakkale 2004 / p.161-162), Osman Kafadak & Ahmet Esenkaya give more details in their article "Thoughts and recommendations on the educated generations lost in the Gallipoli Campaign” :
... and it can be stated that based upon the required age to join the army, there were about 45.000 students who were studying at the existing Ottoman educational institutions and half of whom probably had joined various fronts during the First World War.
PEACE
AT HOME, PEACE IN THE WORLD
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK
The inscription on the monument dedicated to
the martyrs of the Istanbul University reads as follows :
To the memory of the 3160 Turkish soldiers of the 1st – 5th
– 6th - 13th – 15th – 27th – 47th
– 48th – 57th – 64th – 72nd – 77th
– 125th Regiments and the students of the faculty of medicine who
were amongst them, who died during the battle of Ariburnu on 19th
May 1915.
They will never be forgotten
University of Istanbul