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Friday, April 25, 2008

IOL: Gallipoli battle remembered

"Gallipoli battle remembered

April 25 2008 at 11:08AM

Istanbul - Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders gathered in northwestern Turkey early on Friday to honour the memory of soldiers killed in the 1915 Gallipoli battle, one of the bloodiest in World War I, Anatolia news agency reported.

The dawn ceremony marks the time of the first landings of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at the Gallipoli peninsula in the ill-fated Allied campaign to take the Dardanelles Strait from the Ottoman Empire."

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