"Hey Voyager !
If you are on the Kanlı Sırt (Bloody Hill) remember Nuri Cavusch/NCO Nuri from 5th Company of 47th Regiment. He was one of the best men of the Regiment. The Death called him on the morning of Sept. 5th 1915. According to the will of Allah he flied to his ancestors as a clean and innocent humanbeing" Experts from the diary of Lt. Mehmet Fasih
To a Traveller!
If you enter the Strait of Dardanelles from Aegean Sea you will see on the right the Hills of Canakkale and on the left the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the Hills of Canakkale you will notice a warning in capital letters colored with white chalk "
Halt Traveller!" This warns all people who desires to enter the Dardanelles without permission. In March 18th 1915 British and French tried to enter the dardanelles without permission and paid their desire with blood and heavy losses. After that bloody fight a Turkish poet called Necmettin Halil Onan wrote the following poem. The poem is translated into English by Tanwir Wasti. published by the March 18th University Magazine 2003
I write the poem for the honour of all holy dead of Gallipoli. My their graves be in light
So mote it be!
To a Traveller
Stop wayfarer ! Unbeknownst to you this ground
You come and tread on, is where an epoch lies;
Bend down and lend your ear, for this silent mound
Is the place where the heart of a nation sighs
To the left of this deserted shadeless lane
The Anatolian slope now observe you well;
For liberty and honor, it is, in pain,
Where wounded Mehmet (x) laid down his and fell
This very mound, when violently shhok the land,
When the last bit of earth passed from hand to hand,
And when Mehmet drowned the enemy in flood,
Is the spot where he added his own pure blood.
Think, the consecrated blood and flesh and bone
That make up this mould, is where a whole nation,
After a harsh and pitiless war, alone,
Tasted the joyje of freedom with elation.
(x) Mehmet is the commen name given to Turkish Soldier.
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