Gallipoli : the Turkish story by Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Hürmüz Basarin, Hatice Hürmüz Basarin

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By Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Hürmüz Basarin, Hatice Hürmüz Basarin

Each Australian sufficiently old to learn and write has heard of Gallipoli, but what number people have encountered something past the Australian point of view. This account from a Turkish viewpoint broadens our wisdom of those tragic events.

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The nomadic tribes thus uprooted themselves and headed westward. A significant movement took place during the fifth century AD when Huns from Asia invaded Europe through lands north of the Caspian Sea. They dislocated many Germanic tribes, caused the downfall of the Western Roman Empire and established a short-lived state in central eastern Europe. The Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire, as it was later called), with its capital in Constantinople, weathered the invasion. Another major migratory move by nomadic Turkic tribes occurred in the eleventh century.

A] young Turk . . pointed to Rob and said ‘You and me 80 years ago would be fighting but now we are friends . . ’ Here were these two young men shaking hands and smiling into the camera when they could have been fighting. It made me think—for what? Why did all those men die? Was it so Rob and the young Turk could stand today and be friends? 24 28 Gallipoli – The Turkish Story 3/2/03 8:10 AM Page 29 TWO A proud heritage ver 2500 years ago in central Asia, there lived a group of dispersed tribes loosely termed the Turkic people.

Within Turkey, recognition of the Anzacs has increased markedly in recent years, probably because of the annual influx of antipodean visitors, official and unofficial. Where Turkish school texts once described the enemy as consisting solely of English and French forces, school history books now make a point of identifying Australia and New Zealand’s Anzac contingents. 12 In 2001, the Ankara State Opera and Ballet company staged Gallipoli Cartoonist Bill Leak’s comment on Australian politicians’ much publicised trips to Anzac Cove.

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