...they have become our sons as well.

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2015)

From Ari Burnu point walk back through the cemetery to the road. Notice to your right here the Turkish memorial. On it are words sent in 1934 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey, to an official Australian, New Zealand and British party visiting Anzac Cove:
"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 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."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1934