Seddülbahir 32 Hours in Urdu Subtitle
January
1915 the Russian Tsar panicking at the Turkish advance on sarikamish urge the
Allies to attack Turkey the British agreed this is one of the greatest
campaigns in history think what Constantinople is to the east it is more than
London Paris and Berlin all rolled into one are to the West think what its form
will mean this was the battle which might turn the war it could cut Germany's
route to the east unlock the Balkans and open up Russia via the Black Sea but
first the Navy would have to force its way through the Dardanelles straits the
French insisted on being involved not wanting the British to dominate the
Mediterranean on the 18th of March 1915 a combined French and British fleet
attacked the straights the flagship was hit by a large number of high caliber
shells a turret which put out of action and orders cruelly killed flames didn't
spare anything our young men a few minutes earlier so alert and courageous were
all skeleton lying on the bare steel blackened carbonized the Turkish guns
survived the naval bombardment the Allied ships were sitting ducks I told the
battery commander the fat bay to increase fire he replied the chills are
exploding on the decks of the enemy ships there is considerable damage to them
the French battleship who they hit a mine three battleships are sunk that day
three crippled four damaged the Allies lost over 700 men it was a remarkable
victory of the Ottoman Empire the Allies tried again this time the Navy would
support an amphibious landing of troops the Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps known as anzacs joined French and British soldiers contrary to later myth
the Anzacs weren't rough tough diggers from the outback they were mostly city
dwellers many first-generation British immigrants fighting for the mother
country Turks like biscotti kerim knew this would be a fight for their
country's survival I will sacrifice myself for my faith my country my dear
Istanbul I will crush the dirty loathsome hands reaching out to threaten mild
father's happiness my innocent baby's life my beloved wife's honor I shall be
as hard-hearted as an Englishman I salute you Oh apple of my eye Istanbul those
who are about to die bid you farewell on the 25th of April 1915 the Seddülbahir 70,000 Allied
troops went ashore on the peninsula of gaily baloon Gallipoli a post-war film
reconstructed the battle private Robert Atkinson witnessed what was then the
greatest seaborne invasion ever the troops in small boats in tow the shore
effector landing terrific bombardment awful noise rolling when Eclipse surprise
the Turks spending gunnery by the name and or inspired see my first experience
about the Anzacs were landed in the wrong place 8000 men struggled ashore on a
narrow strip of sand hemmed in by steep hills the men christened it Anzac Cove
the Turks welcomed us with shrapnel and sprayed up the seal about us but very
few of us got there that didn't see much organization on the shore in fact it
was disorganization breaking out of Anzac Cove the casualties soared New
Zealand a William Malone blamed the folly and incompetence of Australian
officers the channel bran had no defensive position no plan nothing but a
murderous notion but the only thing to do was that plunge troops out of the
neck of the ridge into the jungle beyond it was on these Turkish Hills that
Australian and New Zealand national identities were forged we were singing this
bit of the world belongs to us much swearing and Cheerilee charged up a hill so
steep in places we can only just scrambling clean over a machine down the
length then drop an all around he's mad Wow surely the Anzacs would have had an
easier time if it had been left to the German General Eamon von Sanders he was
holding troops back for an attack nine miles away that never came but a 34 year
old Turkish officer Mustafa Kemal climbed the peak of chanock by ear and saw
the Anzac troops approaching and his own men fleeing why are you running away I
asked the enemy sir they said you mustn't run away from the enemy we've no more
ammunition they replied I ordered them to fix their bayonets and lie down and
as they did so the enemy to lay down we had one time Mustafa Kemal issued a
stock command I don't order you to attack i order you to die by the time we are
dead other units and commanders will have come up to take our place he sent an
angry letter to Enver Pacha damming their German allies man thong Sanders did
not know either our army or our country did not have time to study the
situation properly I urge you strongly not to rely on the mental ability of the
Germans headed by von Sanders whose hearts and souls are not engaged as ours
our in the defense of our country the Turks contained the Anzac break out at
the cove Gallipoli made a hero out of Mustapha Kemal within eight years he
became his country's leader earning the name Ataturk father of the Turks the
British landing at Vee Beach went badly the plan was to run the ship
river-clyde onto the shore her hold no longer full of coal but men but she went
to ground further out exposing the British to withering Turkish far the enemy
commanders were sending the men down the ramps but they could not escape the
Turkish bullets our fire was very effective knocking the enemy into the sea the
show at V Beach was full of enemy corpses like shows of fish the color of the
sea change with the blood from their bodies the other landings went
well but initial success was not quickly exploited the Allied campaign under
General Sir Ian Hamilton was cursed by poor coordination as on the Western
Front the two sides dug into a bitter trench war here an Australian cameraman
scrambles back to help his assistant under fire French officer Giorgio do
watched the war turned brutal The Australian's massacre all the Turks one
Australian told me that the Turks are their national enemy the conditions at
Gallipoli were terrible intense heat bitter cold little water major Burge wrote
home to his mother respected madam sitting fearlessly about 200 yards from 2
million bloodthirsty Turks I take up my pen I forgot to mention I've got about
6 feet of solid earth between me and them the Sun is very hot and I am very
thirsty the only thing there is to drink is water that comes from a nasty well
which tastes as if it had a dead mule in it however we are getting purifying
tablets which are very good and make the water taste as if it had two dead
mules in it to my highborn royal wife by chef from your husband will stop a
minute captain 13th Turkish infantry why should my Morningstar I pray God to
bring this all to an end I can see our lovely Constantinople in ruins and our
houses burned to the ground these English are very persistent there was no fear
of death for them they're very cruel they watch us like wolves in the night are
upon us like the devil in the day joining this wicked war I share must now take
my leave of you if the Sun is sinking along mr. way to my devotion god bless
you I should I wish I were at home to giving my adorations but I say never
received one Stouffer's letter it was found on his dead body by a British
soldier the Turks lost 10,000 men in one afternoon as spring turned into summer
the stench of the Dead became unbearable eventually an armistice was called to
bury the dead many Turkish soldiers were illiterate their experiences were
reflected in their songs Donna caught it Blue team day one of a you disease
became a major killer particularly typhus and dysentery my old pal he was smart
and upright as a guardsman after about sandiest to see him crawlin about his
backside hanging out who were trying to lure him down in the latrine I don't
know what happened but he simply rolled in her this foot wide trench we
couldn't pull him out we didn't have any strength he drowned in his own
excrement allied resolve was weakening has left an eternal legend
realized writing to his father the morale of his troops has sunk so low as to
be beyond description these fellows will eventually have to embark their troops
and remove them one of these nights on the 20th of December 1915 they did just
that Turkish officer is 18 Bey was woken by the duty officer at 3 o'clock in
the morning they had spotted many frigates and military transport ships they
thought it was a new invasion but on the contrary the British were running away
their situation had become hopeless what had happened was victory and the will
of Allah Turkish troops enter abandoned allied trenches they did not fire on
the retreating allies happy just to see them go after nine terrible months the
hills of Gallipoli fell silent both sides had suffered around a quarter of a
million casualties but for the Turks it was a triumph when the enemy finally
withdrew Constantinople was decorated from one end to the other at night the
minarets were lit up with oil lamps every one was full of joy pale faces began
to smile Constantinople came back to life.
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