This is part of a beautiful Turkish Memorial halfway up Chunuk Bair. Our Turkish guide told us that it is designed to be open, in the memory of the Turkish soldiers who died during the campaign. The shape also suggests many of the very old castles and buildings in different parts of Turkey.

From this angle you can also see why it was so important for the Turkish defenders to control the heights. They could see everything the Anzacs were doing. Not only that, but the Anzacs then had to fight going up hill, which would wear them out more quickly.

Looking down the ridge going up to Chunuk Bair. The beautiful Turkish Memorial in the last picture is just out of sight on the left. A statue to Turkish soldiers is straight ahead. The white parts are Courtney's and Steele's Posts Cemeteries, Quinn's Post Cemetery, Johnston's Jolly Cemetery, with Lone Pine Memorial on the ridge.

Gaba Tepe is the point of land in the distance, just above the tree line.

Shrapnel Valley is down on the right.You can see the edge of the cliffs.

  

A Turkish Memorial to an Unknown Soldier halfway up Chunuk Bair.

  

Another of the Turkish Memorials on the ridge leading up Chunuk Bair.

The point at the top is close to the summit of Chunuk Bair.

Johnstone's Jolly is just ahead on the left.

  

It was when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk saw this view on the morning of 25 April 1915 that he realised the whole campaign lay in protecting Chunuk Bair and the surrounding hill tops. Other Turkish commanders had not noticed this. Had Ataturk not seen it, then perhaps everything might have turned out very different.

The Turkish Memorial to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, right on the summit of Chunuk Bair. The New Zealand Memorial is right beside the statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

The statue looks directly down across Rhododendron Ridge to Ari Burnu Point at the northern end of Anzac Cove.

  

 A close up view of the statue. It shows Mustafa Kemal Ataturk dressed as he was during the battles.

He never left the battle ground during the whole 9 months the battle raged.

He was only slightly wounded once when a bullet struck him in the chest, right where his pocket watch was. The watch was ruined, but it saved his life.

  

Even in the mist and rain this still looks a very fine statue of the Turkish leader. You can see how big the statue is by looking at the size of the man down at the base.

  

This Turkish Memorial to an Unknown Turkish Soldier is right at the top of Rhododendron Ridge, near the summit of Chunuk Bair.

 

Visitors had found bones of the dead soldiers out in the battle areas, and placed them on the grave.

The Turkish inscription reads:
"BURADA YATAN
AZIZ
SEHITLERIMINIZIN
RUHUNA
FATIHA".

In English this says:
"May you read Fatiha to the spirit of the sacred martyrs that lie dead here."

This is a part of the Museum religion's Holy Book, called the Koran.

The Koran is as important to the Museum religion as the Bible is to the Christian religion.