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Monument and Park of Respect for History

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If you continue driving after the Akbaş Martyrs’ Cemetery you will arrive at Eceabat. The park near the ferry quay of Eceabat was built in 2008. It has been renovated twice, in 2010 and 2013. The cannons of the bastions, shells, and a monument are situated inside the park. The monument is composed of statues of soldiers from the warring sides, Corporal Seyid, Mustafa Kemal Bey and other main figures.  

At the remaning part of the monument are busts of Nasuh Bey, the Son of Corporal Ömer; First Lieutenant Pilot Ali Rıza Bey; Colonel Celalettin Sığındere; Staff Colonel Ali Remzi Alçıtepe; Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Avni Bey; Major General Esat Bülkat Pasha; Full General Cevat Çobanlı Pasha; and Marshal Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

At the other end of the park is an exhibition animating the Battle of the Dardanelles on a topographical platform. Detailed information on the battles is inscribed over the glass panels surrounding the exhibition. The walking trail of the exhibition was designed like the sea and the lines of the mines laid in the strait in the morning of March 8, 1915, 05:00-07:30 a.m. and the Turkish minelayers and Allied warships are all marked on the ground. In the next part, the trenches of the Quinn’s Post (Bombasırtı) Battles are displayed as a reminder of the battle where the trenches of the two sides were as close as 8 m to one another.