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Gallipoli

The site of one of the most brutal campaigns of WWI, the Gallipoli Peninsula is now a national park which preserves the monuments to the fallen. Of significant historical and cultural importance to Turks, New Zealanders and Australians the park is located at the entrance to the Dardanelles on the Aegean Sea. It was the Allied forces' intention to take the peninsula and thus have access to Istanbul and the Black Sea towns of their ally, Russia. However, it actually became the final resting place of many an Allied hope as well as some 700,000 soldiers. The reality of the war becomes apparent after a visit to the Gallipoli Museum and ANZAC Cove. With memorabilia and copies of letters sent to families, the museum is a poignant place of reflection. Afterwards, a visit to the sheer cliffs of ANZAC Cove gives an indication as to the insurmountable task the Allied forces had been set.

The War: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/gall.htm

The Filum : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/

The Full Story : http://user.glo.be/~snelders/contents.html

Read and Weep:

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives...!
You are now lying in the soul of a friendly country, therefore rest in peace.
There is no differences between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours...
You, the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears.
Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace.
After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

ATATURK, (1934).

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