{"id":90,"date":"2014-04-24T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:37:17","slug":"turkey-allies-unite-to-mark-99th-gallipoli-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, Allies unite to mark 99th Gallipoli anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00c7ANAKKALE \u2013 Do\u011fan News Agency<br \/>\nHurriyet Daily News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey marked the 99th anniversary of the ground war of the Dardanelles campaign in the northwestern province of \u00c7anakkale with ceremonies on April 24, commemorating all soldiers who fell in the battles.<\/p>\n<p>High-ranking Turkish officials and foreign dignitaries from 32 countries attended the ceremony at the Monument of Martyrs at \u00c7anakkale National Park, giving peace messages to the world 99 years after the battle. <\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister \u0130smet Y\u0131lmaz, \u00c7anakkale Governor Ahmet \u00c7\u0131nar, and a number of Turkish generals were among the attendees, along with New Zealand\u2019s Governor-General Jerry Mateparae, Australian Secretary of Veterans Affairs Michael Ronaldson, and the prime minister of the interim government of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Tomeh.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl\u2019s message was displayed on the screens placed at the ceremony area. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong friendship emerged from a sad history. Our duty is to work for keeping a permanent peace in the world,\u201d G\u00fcl said. <\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General \u0130smail G\u00fcrgen spoke in the name of the Turkish Army, saying \u00c7anakkale was a monument to humanity against the cruelty of the war, underlining that over 500,000 people were killed on both sides. <\/p>\n<p>General Elrick Irastorza, from France, also spoke at the ceremony, saying that coming together on the same land today showed the distance covered by yesterday\u2019s enemies and today\u2019s allies. He stressed that peace between nations is only possible if a different kind of war is waged against hate, fear of others and fear of differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c7ANAKKALE \u2013 Do\u011fan News Agency Hurriyet Daily News Turkey marked the 99th anniversary of the ground war of the Dardanelles campaign in the northwestern province of \u00c7anakkale 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallipoli100.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}