Memories of Turkey's last Gallipoli veteran

We hear reflections from the son of Huseyin Kacmaz who was regarded as the oldest Turkish survivor of the fighting against the ANZACs.

ANZAC Day services are over for another year, once again attended by tens-of-thousands of people in Australia, New Zealand, and various other sites around the world.

 

As usual, one of the most significant services was on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, where the ANZAC legend was born back in 1915, in the first major military action by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the first World War.

 

A statue on the Gallipoli Peninsula features a Turkish man, Huseyin Kacmaz who when he died in 1994 at the age of 110 was regarded as the oldest survivor of the fighting against the ANZACs.

 

This year, his son, Turgut, has been in Melbourne.

 

After attending the ANZAC Day march, he spoke to Kristina Kukolja about Gallipoli, the ANZACS, and war...






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