Thank you for sharing this with us. It was very intersting.
I think this will be good to see here.



The immaculately-kept Turkish graves at Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport ‘Turktown’

Bu mesajı okumak kalbimi sızlattı.Onlara gösterdiğiniz saygı için teşekkür ederiz.Onlar sizin evlatlarınız olmuşlar artık,Çanakkalede uyuyan askerlerinizin bizim evlatlarımız olması gibi..

Thanks for your respect towards our ancestors.They are your counry's children anymore, as your sleeping soldiers in Dardanel are our country's.

Who maintains the grave stones?
The article didn't seem to say (or I missed it)!

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2044620&mode=1

a folklore expert J.E. MANN says he knows this issue from early ages but the only thing he has found is an unsigned handwriting document. it is said in this document that the relationship between gosport and Turks goes to crusades; the English crusades brought the Turkish captives to gosport and keep them in the area now used as '' Gosport police centre''..This areafirst is used as captive camp later as captive graveyard...But there is no official documents about that and never an archeological excavation is performed there.. on the other hand the Haslar hospital thats used since 1745 has a clear relationship between Turks.. Since 1996 this hospital was belong to english royal navy and a part of the graveyard of this hospital was seperated for Turks.. The first Turks buried there were the Ottoman navy sailors who has visited Gosport ..They were the victims of cholera epidemic..But there is also another claim that a Turkish colony has really lived there...
the gravestones thats in Clayhall Royal Navy graveyard proves this claim ..because the 23 of the gravestones were belong to the years 1850 and 1851... the first place of graveyard was not its last place...while building another structure to the hospital the graves carried to their new place,near Alver Lake in 1902 and in 1985 Turkish General Staff restored the gravestones and graveyard .. The visit of Ottoman ships to Gosport attracted lots of attention and the gosportians liked the sailors ..the news in the local newspaper proves this...The sailors went shopping and stayed there for six and a half month...there are also some more Trukish marks in this area; in Fort Nelson Castle one of the most important piece of Royal Navy weapon museum is a Turkish cannon which is made in 1464...This connon is sent to England in 1857 and in 1708 another cannon is sent by mistake and stands in this museum...

this article is published in september 2004 in the weekly magazine named ''TOPLUMSAL TARİH'' and prepared by Dr. Zeynep Aygen tutor of Porstmouth university ...




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