KEMAL ATATÜRK AND THE FOREIGN SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN GALLIPOLI
13 December, 2017 By Sermet Atacanlı
“An idiot throws a stone into a well and forty wise men cannot take it out” says a Turkish proverb. This is precisely what happened as regards the recent controversy in some historical and academic circles on the famous words of Atatürk expressed towards the mothers of Anzacs and other foreign soldiers who fell in Gallipoli.
It all started when Cengiz Özakıncı, author and self-styled (...)