The 57th Infantry Regiment Martyrs' Cemetery was designed by the Architect Nejat Dinçel and was built by the Ministry of Culture on December 12, 1992 on the Kabatepe-Chunuk Bair road at the south end of Baby 700. Foreign troops referred to this location as “The Chess Board”. This newly constructed memorial is rather symbolic, and the original is located at Çataldere Valley at the south part of Quinn’s Post.
The Turkish 57th Regiment of the 19th Division commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Avni Bey faced and countered the Anzac soldiers for the first time on the first day of the landing operations. The leadership and courageous qualities of the 19th Division Commander Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemal were witnessed for the first time at this front. The 57th Regiment Memorial is composed of a sadirvan, open-air namazgah (place of worship), main cemetery and the monument. The main feature of the martyrs' cemetery is the Pond of Abundance, frequently used at Seljuk and Ottoman Caravanserais.
The memorial can be accessed through the aperture located on the east wall on the Kabatepe-Chunuk Bair road. Near the entrance is a bronze statue of Turkey’s last Gallipoli veteran, Hüseyin Kaçmaz, who passed away on September 10, 1994 at the age of 108. Across from the entrance is a relief on the cemetery’s eastern wall depicting the counter assault of the 57th Regiment on April 25, 1915. The relief covers an area of approximately 45 m². The sadirvan and the open-air namazgah are located at the south end of the memorial.
The main cemetery of the memorial has an arched entrance and is located on the northern wall of the pavement which starts from this entrance. Marble plaques bearing the names of the martyrs of the 57th Regiment are found on the northern wall, forming the base of the memorial.
