Türkiye marks the 109th anniversary of the Çanakkale naval victory
Every year on March 18, Türkiye commemorates Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day, honoring fallen soldiers and celebrating an important World War I victory The 109th anniversary of Türkiye’s naval victory on the Gallipoli peninsula at the start of World War I is commemorated with a traditional ceremony at the Martyrs’ Monument, overlooking the Dardanelles strait […]
Exploring Çanakkale, Gallipoli War memorials, and so much more with Mick and Trudie
Çanakkale occupies the narrowest point of the straits called the Dardanelles, which are 1,200m wide at this point. In 450 BC, the Persian King Xerxes built a bridge of boats here to land his troops in Thrace, and the final battles of the Peloponnesian War took place in these waters around 400 BC. Today, ferry […]
Türkiye marks Anzac Day
Hundreds of people gathered by a beach near the former World War I battlefields on Türkiye’s Gallipoli Peninsula on Tuesday to pay homage to soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who lost their lives in a disastrous campaign 108 years ago. The Anzac Day services began as the first light broke on the peninsula in northwest Türkiye, with a […]