Down at the Ari Burnu cemetery, there's another monument, this one quoting from a speech that Ataturk made in 1934. Suleyman, our guide, says it stills give him chills to read it. It is much a source of pride in Turkey, that the founder of their Republic, made such a gracious speech, aimed at reconciliation:
"Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil
"Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil
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