Istanbul to Gallipoli

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April 12th 2014

Published: May 5th 2014

Being the last plane into Istanbul has its major disadvantages. Having landed 15 minutes early was irrelevant when one spends over an hour and a half trying to get into the country and people constantly tried to jump the queue and 'sneak' past people. Then the representative who is meant to meet you and make your life easier was nowhere to be seen. A very lovely man behind a desk gave me his phone... Read Full Entry

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Sarah

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Having grown up in Australia, I had no idea that when I left in December, 1998, I wouldn't go back. After working and travelling in the northern hemisphere for over 13 years, I then quit everything to travel through Africa in 2012. Since then I have also travelled the Silk Route and in 2015 moved to Bangkok, Thailand. The more I travel, the longer the lists of places to go grows, not shrinks. Thanks to all those who read and wrote. it's the first time I've attempted blogging and feedback was definitely the motivation to keep me going! A desk is a dangerous ... full info

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Uskudar

Fishing, with the Bosphorous Bridge in the background

Uskudar

view from the Uskudar ferry

Evening prayers in front of the Hagia Sophia

Canakkale, the museum in Gallipoli

Canakkale

Anzac Cove

I finally made it here to pay my respects.

The ANZACS' landing spot

Setting up for Anzac day memorial

The moving words from a letter written by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to the ANZACs

"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lay 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" 1934

Lone Pine, the Australian cemetery

As the story goes, two brothers were on the front line and one was killed. His brother found a pinecone lying on his brother’s body and sent it to his mother in Australia as a momento. From the seeds of the pine cone, his mother planted a tree in his memory. When the monuments and cemeteries were built in the 1930s, their mother send a pinecone from that tree to Canberra and to Gallipoli, and seeds from these were planted there.

Lone Pine cemetery

There are far too many graves like this in all the cemeteries.

View of Anzac Cove and the terrain the soldiers would have had to cross

John Simpson's grave

Known as 'the man and his donkey', John Simpson worked as a stretcher-bearer, carrying wounded men on his donkey from the valley to the beach where they could be treated. He worked tirelessly day and night, always cheerful and was killed by machine gun fire. He is buried at Hell Spit alongside many others.

The moving statue of the Fallen Soldier

It was not uncommon during ceasefires for men on either side to exchange food and cigarettes, with some trenches only eight metres apart. The statue commemorates a time when the Turks raised the ceasefire flag to carry a wounded Allied soldier for treatment.

Entry to an Allied underground tunnel system

Actual trenches, still visible

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