This website has been prepared by
the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
Dear Visitor,
The place you are in lies within the grounds of the monument, which was
erected in memory of 250.000 martyrs who sacrified their life for their
motherland and Turkish honour. Let us commemorate those who gave us this
beautiful country of ours.
Translated from an inscription
at the Abide Memorial.
The official records of the Turkish General Staff, complimented with the lists
of casualities & missing of the main battles that took place during this 8,5
months campaign, give us the following figures.
Main battles : 115.000 dead
& wounded.
Other battles (trench warfare/daily conflicts) : 40.000 dead & wounded.
Missing : 9.178 dead.
Prisoners of war : 2000.
Total losses : 166.178 dead, wounded & prisoners of war.
Total losses classification : 66.262 dead, 97.916 wounded, 2000 pow.
This table is of course insufficient as it only shows the casualities on the
battlefields.
Do not ignore the ground on which you have walked,
It is not ordinary soil.
Reflect on the thousands of people who lie beneath,
without a schroud.
You are the son of a Martyr-
do not hurt your ancestor,
do not give away this beautiful Motherland,
Even if you have the whole world.
From the poem To the Martyrs of Çanakkale
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy.
(translated by S. Tanvir Wasti)
O Soldier, for this earths sake, fallen to the dust,
If your heavenly forbears kissed your brow, twere just.
Brave you are, your blood makes God is one victorious,
Only the lions of Bahr could be as glorious.
Who can dig a sepulchre great enough for you ?
History itself, say I, cannot contain you.
From the poem To the Martyrs of Çanakkale
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy.
(translated by S. Tanvir Wasti)
translated from "the homeland is beyond the trenches", (Istanbul 2006), Gürsel Göncü-Şahin Aldoğan, p. 145
