And this is why I love the Dutch! (Look how beautiful a gesture this is!)

[grizz]

As ANZACS invaded Gallipoli on 25th April 1915, Turkish leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk told his troops:
“I don’t order you to fight, I order you to die. In the time it takes us to die, other troops and commanders can come and take our places.”

87,000 ‘Mehmets’ fell.

Yet after the war he memorialised:

... 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.


Ships that transits the Dardanelles see this carving which translated reads,

Traveller halt!
The soil you tread
Once witnessed the end of an era
http://turkishnavy.net/2013/06/10/ru...raits-part-13/
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/2visiting/turkish_stop.html