Gallipoli

'Epic heroism': Türkiye marks 108th anniversary of Canakkale victory

Commemoration ceremonies begin in Türkiye's northwestern Canakkale city, where Ottoman forces repelled the Allied Powers of World War I during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Significance of Türkiye's 108th Canakkale victory commemoration

March 18 is considered one of the most significant victories in Turkish history and is commemorated with Turks honouring their fallen and war veterans.

Hungarian Gallipoli Monument symbol of historic Türkiye-Hungary ties: Akar

The monument, which is built in Türkiye's northwestern Canakkale province, commemorates the Turkish and Hungarian soldiers who fought heroically and shoulder to shoulder during the Battle of Canakkale in 1915.

Ceremony in Türkiye marks 107th anniversary of Gallipoli landings

Travellers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other nations’ dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli to remember troops killed during the war.

Erdogan opens world's longest suspension bridge on Canakkale anniversary

The inauguration of the 1915 Canakkale Bridge coincides with the 107th anniversary of Ottoman forces' naval victory against British and French troops in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I.

Turkey opens an underwater park featuring submerged World War I ships

Memories of the First World War lie beneath the waters of Gallipoli. After a long wait, divers can access the area from October 2, 2021 onwards.

Turkey pumps oxygen into Marmara to aid marine life under sea snot

Five devices will release oxygen into the sea-snot covered Marmara to help marine life impacted by the mucilage off the coasts of Istanbul and northwestern Kocaeli province.

Turkey marks 105th anniversary of Canakkale naval victory

"I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die," commanded Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.

Turkey, Australia and New Zealand commemorate fallen soldiers on Anzac Day

Turkish President Erdogan pays tribute to soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of Gallipoli at annual Anzac Day.

Erdogan remarks on NZ terror attack taken 'out of context'

Comments by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand were taken "out of context," a senior official of the Turkish presidency says, after Australia and New Zealand voiced anger over the remarks.

Austrian mosque closures are anti-Islam and racist - Turkey

A decision by Austria to close seven mosques and expel as many as 60 imams has been branded by a senior Turkish government spokesman as a populist attempt to standardise racism and Islamophobia.

The forgotten soldier of World War I

Notes from the diary of a Turkish soldier, who fought in Gallipoli, tell us how brutal the Great War was on the other side – the side which was stereotyped as “the sick man of Europe.”