A poem in Turkish on a Gallipoli hillside tells the traveller to ‘behold a place where an age went down… Listen to the silence where a nation’s heart beats.’
The port city of Çanakkale, Turkey, near the site of ancient Troy, conceals the remains of far more recent armies.
Little more than one kilometre wide at its narrowest point, separating Europe from the mainland of Asia, the international waterway today was a strait of death 100 years ago.
The First World War allied attack revealed valour on all sides. There are still many signs.
We asked Gökhan Tarkan Karaman, who makes documentary films, about the sort of relics he finds.
Karaman said: “Not many people have access to a lot of this area. This is a big chunk of land, and, as you know, half a million people came here to fight. This is a place where bullets did actually collide in mid air — so many shells were fired here. So, walking around carefully you find cartridges, shrapnel and mortars. Look down at your feet, especia
