The following is inscribed behind the slope of the Değirmen Burnu Bastion “Stop oh wayfarer! Unbeknownst to you this ground You come and tread on, is where an epoch sank”. The Mehmetçik (Mehmetçik means Turkish Soldier) and torch figures and the verses on the slope of the hill were erected by Seyran Cebi who was serving in the military in 1960. The verses are the first two lines of the poem “A Wayfarer” of the poet Necmettin Halil Onan. 

The main goal of the naval and land battles of the Dardanelles was to access the Kilitbahir Plateau and have a command of the strait and eventually to capture Istanbul, the capital city of the Ottomans. It may be said that this inscription on the slope of Kilitbahir was written at a remarkably strategic location.