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Turkey criticised over Gallipoli battlefield damage
Both Australian television and newspapers are running stories showing the massive excavations at ANZAC Cove, and the damage done to the historically significant site.
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    March 2—  Turkey has come under fire in the Australian media for starting work on a major road development at ANZAC Cove, the site where the first Australian soldiers stepped ashore in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.  

   
 
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  Australia’s Nine network ran a story in its main television news bulletin showing how Turkish contractors had cut back up to 20 metres into the sides of the hills above ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, an area that Turkey said it was planning to have included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
       The region on and around the Cove is also of great historical importance for Turkey, as it was here on 25 April 1915 that the first shots were fired in the land battles of the Gallipoli Campaign and the first Turkish soldier fell in defence of his home soil.
       Now that soil has been excavated and much of it dumped into the sea along the beach at ANZAC Cove, as was depicted by the Australian television broadcast and in photos run by the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the country’s leading dailies.


       According to the paper’s article, director of Turkey’s national parks, Mustafa Kemal Yalinkilic, has ordered that road-widening work at the site be stopped pending an investigation and that no further work proceed until after 25 April.
       It is on that day that thousands of Australians and New Zealanders travel to the Gallipoli battlefields to commemorate those killed on all sides in the seven month long campaign.
       Turkey commemorates its victory over the invading forces on 18 March, the day that it defeated the combined British and French fleets in their attempt to force their way through the Dardanelles Strait and reach Istanbul.
       However, an increasing number of Turks have started attending the 25 April commemoration services, both as a mark of respect for their own fallen and to the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was the outstanding general of the campaign and to honour those foreign soldiers who also lie buried on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
       While the roads in the region of ANZAC Cove needed to be upgraded, especially in light of the increasing number of visitors to the battlefields, plans to construct a seven metre wide road and bus drop off points above ANZAC Cove where considered by many to be excessive, the paper said.
       One visitor to the construction site last week found bullets, pieces of equipment from the war and fragments of human remains amongst the excavated soil.
       The controversy takes on greater significance as 2005 is the 90th anniversary of the campaign, with up to 20,000 foreign visitors expected to attend the commemoration services.
       
 
 
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