The statue of Ataturk at the Çanakkale Sehitleri Aniti (Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial) based on a ...

Accession Number P04386.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Skipper, Len
Date made April 1993
Conflict Period 1990-1999
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The statue of Ataturk at the Çanakkale Sehitleri Aniti (Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial) based on a well-known photograph (see A05319) of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, then Lieutenant-Colonel Mustafa Kemal, looking out over the battlefield from a trench at Anzac. The huge Turkish masonry baldachin, 42 metres high is in the background.

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