Travellers from Australia and New Zealand join Turkish and other dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn service at dawn to remember troops killed during an unsuccessful campaign that aimed to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
Travellers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn service at dawn.Today's Anzac Day service was the first since 2019 in Gallipoli due to COVID-19 restrictionsNew Zealand army chief honoured troops killed, saying "home after home was plunged into mourning"
As the sun rose, participants held a minute of silence to reflect on the sacrifices of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, known as Anzacs, who landed at the beaches at Gallipoli, in north-west Turkey.
The Gallipoli campaign aimed to secure a naval route from the Mediterranean Sea to Istanbul through the Dardanelles, and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.More than 44,000 Allied soldiers and 86,000 Ottoman soldiers died. The battlefields and cemeteries at the site in Canakkale, in north-western Turkey, have become a place for pilgrimage for many Australians and New Zealanders, many of whom sleep on the beaches until the start of the dawn service.Many Australians spend the night at Anzac Cove beach before attending the Dawn Service ceremony.
Among those who made it to the ceremony was 27-year-old Taylor Murphy from Victoria, Australia, who said the pros of being at Gallipoli "outweigh the cons of the pandemic."
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