Brian Abraham wrote " In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to those killed at Gallipoli and is inscribed on a Memorial at Anzac Cove
THOSE HEROES THAT SHED THEIR BLOOD
AND LOST THEIR LIVES... YOU ARE
NOW LYING IN THE SOIL OF A FRIENDLY
COUNTRY. THEREFORE REST IN PEACE.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
JOHNNIES AND MEHMETS TO US
WHERE THEY LIE SIDE BY SIDE HERE IN
THIS COUNTRY OF OURS... YOU, THE
MOTHERS, WHO SENT THEIR SONS FROM
FARAWAY COUNTRIES WIPE AWAY YOUR
TEARS; YOUR SONS ARE NOW LYING IN
OUR BOSOM AND ARE IN PEACE. AFTER
HAVING LOST THEIR LIVES ON THIS LAND
THEY HAVE BECOME OUR SONS AS WELL."
These same remarkably generous words of Kemal Atatürk are inscribed on the Ataturk Memorial in Wellington at the top of a steep and windswept hill rising from Cook Strait.
The terrain is said to be very similar to Gallipoli. A beautiful yet poignant reminder of so many deaths so far from home.
The memorial itself is about 200m south of the Google Maps reference for "Ataturk Park, Wellington, NZ".