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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Hürriyet-Our non-Muslim martyrs

"Our non-Muslim martyrs

The names of unsung heroes, which lie engraved on the headstones of those who died for the Turkish State, may be unfamiliar to Turkish people: Agop, Artin, Bedros, Jojen, Panayot, Yorgi, Nikola, Konstantin, Mihail and Dimitri. However, this list of names represents the non-Muslim soldiers, who, although born of different years died on the same date, while fighting in 1915 at Çanakkale. Their name-tags have now been documented in a six-volume book entitled, “Our Martyrs” published by the General staff. One can now visit the star and crescent gravestones at Çanakkale. "

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