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Ataturk Memorial garden

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Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Ataturk Memorial garden
Phone:
+61 2 6272 2902

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Sunday12am - 12am
Monday12am - 12am
Tuesday12am - 12am
Wednesday12am - 12am
Thursday12am - 12am
Friday12am - 12am
Saturday12am - 12am


The Kemal Atatürk Memorial is a memorial directly opposite the Australian War Memorial on Anzac Parade, the principal memorial and ceremonial parade in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk who, as a Lieutenant Colonel, commanded the Ottoman 19th Infantry Division when it resisted the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Arı Burnu on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915 during World War I. He went on to be the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first president, and received the honorific Atatürk by the Turkish parliament.In 1985, seventy years after the Gallipoli Campaign, the Turkish Government recognized the name Anzac Cove for the place on the peninsula where the Australian and New Zealand troops landed on 25 April 1915. In return for this gesture, the Australian Government established the memorial garden, around the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, that honors the heroism and self-sacrifice of the Turkish and Anzac soldiers who took part in that bitterly fought campaign. This is the only memorial to an enemy commander on Anzac Parade.
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