Private Halil was supposedly killed by the allied bombardment of the nearby
Ertuğrul Fort.
This website has been prepared by
the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli
peninsula
For
centuries I also had to die
in distant
lands not knowing why
for the
first time I gave my life not feeling sore
for I gave
it here for my own in a war
thus the
sultan’s fief tilled for ages with my hand
has now
become for me a
motherland
From the poem
“A Postwar
Epic” by Bülent Ecevit, Former
Prime Minister of Turkey
ER HALİL İBRAHİM MEZARI
PRIVATE HALIL IBRAHIM'S GRAVE
Turkish- HELLES
last updated :
04/12/2006
