A delegation of members of the Senate and Parliament visit the Anafartalar Group commander ...

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Suvla Bay Area
Accession Number P01141.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Sari Bair Area, Chunuk Bair
Date made c August 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A delegation of members of the Senate and Parliament visit the Anafartalar Group commander Colonel Mustafa Kemal Bey (Ataturk) (fourth from left, pointing with upraised arm). Second from left is Major (later General) Izzettin Calislar. The Anafarta Zone stretched from Chunuk Bair (south) to Kiretch Tepe (north of Suvla). The caption on the photograph is in both Ottoman and Turkish script and was written after 1923 when this script was brought into use.