ALİ ASLAN KILIÇ / ANKARA Today’s Zaman A law establishing a new state agency to protect the commemorative site where every year, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders pay respect to their ancestors killed in the 1915 battle of Gallipoli during World War I, includes a ban on consuming alcohol at the site. Parliament adopted…
By Alan Whitehorn The Armenian Weekly By Alan Whitehorn The Armenian Weekly In most of the writings about Gallipoli, civilian deportations and casualties are rarely mentioned. Even more disappointing is the failure to make the important link that the Gallipoli/Dardanelles campaigns had to one of the key phases of the Armenian Genocide—a genocide that would…
Just over two hundred Australians fell into enemy hands during our involvement in the Allied fight against the Ottoman Empire. Amongst those troops taken at Gallipoli and in Palestine, there were also some pioneering Australian submariners and a group of our very first aviation personnel. These last went into the bag during the relatively obscure…
ÇANAKKALE – Doğan News Agency Hurriyet Daily News Turkey marked the 99th anniversary of the ground war of the Dardanelles campaign in the northwestern province of Çanakkale with ceremonies on April 24, commemorating all soldiers who fell in the battles. High-ranking Turkish officials and foreign dignitaries from 32 countries attended the ceremony at the Monument…
ÇANAKKALE/ANKARA Hurriyet Daily News Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used his speech commemorating the hundreds of thousands of Turks who died during the battle of the Gallipoli to declare: “Traitors will not succeed.” “Turkey will surrender neither to outside forces nor to domestic traitors,” Erdoğan said. Stressing the “unity of the country,” he said the…
Colin Tatz The Conversation Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that “nothing happened” or that what happened was something “different”. On the eve of two centennial anniversaries in 2015 — the Gallipoli landings, and the start of the genocide of long-settled Armenians,…
EDITORIAL The Armenian Mirror Spectator By Edmond Y. Azadian Ahmed Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, has laid his campaign plans to drown Armenian voices in 2015. Indeed, as Armenians prepare with their scarce resources to make the Genocide Centennial a turning point in history, Turkey, using its vast resources, has already taken the proactive stand to…
Anna Patty, Judith Whelan The Sydney Morning Herald Turkey has warned Australia against any further formal recognition of the Armenian genocide to avoid undermining its relationship and the special centenary commemoration of Gallipoli in 2015. And NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has retaliated, saying it was “deplorable” for the 100-year anniversary of the Gallipoli landing to…