The Ghosts at Gallipoli
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198406/the.ghosts.at.gallipoli.htm

GELIBOLU 1915

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_a7hfHZKwY

Anzac Day 2008
http://www.anzacday.info/dawn_service_gallipoli/dawn_service_gallipoli.htm

http://blog.awm.gov.au/gallipoli2007/

History in the Depths’ is the story of the stupendous struggle of World War I fought on Turkish land Gallipoli in 1915 that lives to date. The ‘Gallipoli Campaign’ was fought between Turkish and Germans on one side and the Commonwealth army that consisted of British, Australian, New Zealander, Indian and South African allied with the French and Senegal armies on the other, lasted about nine months and cost the lives of over half a million people.

What makes the war remarkable is neither the multitude of the nations involved nor the magnitude of young lives lost on such a small piece of land, but its unique spirit which bonded the soldiers of opposing armies sharing a common tragedy; war. Killing each other during the day, they shared their limited food and helped each other’s wounded during the night. A legend that still lives today and is remembered every April 25th.

Eighty-three long years after the war, the Turkish General Staff granted the permission, for the first time, to dive and film the sacred war graves of the warring nations. The most unique and remarkable underwater footage of the documentary captures the scenes of the sunken British battleships HMS Irresistible, HMS Triumph, HMS Majestic, the trawler Lundy, Anzac landing boats, pinnacles and steam boats, Turkish battleship Mesudiye and many others.

The sixty minute version, of the 5 episode - 30minutes each - documentary of the legendary ‘Gallipoli Campaign’ achieves to bring great rhythm and pace while keeping the fullness of the story and captures the audience from the first minute. The mystery of Gallipoli land battles, the preceding naval assault on the Dardanelles, the trench and submarine warfare, the miraculous withdrawal of the Allies including the not very well known perspective of the Turkish side during their heroic defend, are all revealed for the first time in the documentary ‘History in the Depths’.

http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/1landing/bgrnd.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_a7hfHZKwY


http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=26405




http://www.anzacday.info/dawn_service_gallipoli/dawn_service_gallipoli.htm


http://www.diggerhistory2.info/graveyards/pages/equip-uniform/tk-weapons.htm

http://www.awm.gov.au/gmaps/turkish/index.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnvOZdZH0uM


http://www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/gallipoli.php?index=080.010.040

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2v67MlYA4

The poetry of Bulent Ozcan:

is unique not only because poetry and music entwine with each other in his poetry but also its doors are open to philosophy; it has its own subtle mathematics, its own colourful metaphysics. The mystical workmanship that we see in his poetry can almost be compared to an aesthetics which is almost flawless, like we find in a diamond. This mystical realism which does not give itself away so easily becomes even more tasteful as times goes by, like a bottle of aged wine, combined, of course, with his Anatolian, spotless personality. He sometimes creates his own dreams of what he would write down on paper. He takes a deep breath of their smell and finds shelter in the bosom of poetry. The perfume of his poetry oozes out of many different places, which are quiet and secluded... He is both a goldsmith and a porter of his poetry. With so much labour, little by little, sometimes painful, he weaves his poetry like a silkworm... He listens to that tinkling voice in complete silence. The poetry of Bulent Ozcan has its own unique colours, its own unique personality; together with air, wind and earth. As Bilsen Basaran pointed out in the "Poetry of Bulent Ozcan": "...In all of his poems there is magic and charm. Their colour, taste and sound are very very special and these poems are decorated with extraordinary things unique to Ozcan." He processes life like a goldsmith. He questions life itself but he believes that his poetry too must be consistent with his questioning, and he stubbornly insists that one cannot separate a poet's workmanship from his own being as a poet in this world. One needs to see that the overwhelming problems in the society in which we live are very much part of our own realities, and yet one also needs to weave his or her own philosophy of life around those realities. It is probably for this reason that the poetry of Bulent Ozcan are full of Mesopotamian colours. The true colour of Ozcan's poetry is based on those colours... He steps on each word, then he turns his face toward Nile and pours out his words... His poems are like a well-steeped tea brewed with the clear waters of Ararat...

"Every bird
carries on her wings
the geography
of her own country..."

Bulent Ozcan does not see any higher love than love for humanity.

Thanks, Alpha, I love SAZ!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-dugAsbEALY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7yewL8QuIr0

Famous for turkish honey, Sucuk made from water buffalo and beef and not to forget its world famous white marble: called the white stone of the Roman Emperors. Afyon's Sucuk has a special taste,[Ingredients for sucuk: much garlic, thyme and red pepper] because there is a saying its cattle is fond of grazing in the local opium fields.
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