| Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial Park |
| Gallipoli, Turkey |
Pictures courtesy of Brian Budge
Cemetery
Soldier Statue
Veteran Statue
Chessboard from MaClaurin's
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The Memorial Park is another Turkish symbolic
cemetery, with plaques bearing names of soldiers of 57th Regiment. It was
the Anatolian Turkish regiment of Mustapha Kemal's 19th Division
and lead its counter-attack on 25th April that stopped the Anzac advance
on Baby 700 after desperate fighting.
The Memorial Park was constructed in 1992 at
the top of The Chessboard, on the lower slope of Baby 700. It includes a
statue of a Turkish Soldier, another of a grand-daughter with the oldest
Turkish Gallipoli veteran, Huseyin Kacmaz, who died in 1994 aged 108.
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