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Turkey Pays Homage to Allied 'Heroism' at Gallipoli
by Naharnet Newsdesk 23 April 2015, 20:37

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid homage Thursday to the "heroism" of Allied troops who lost to forces of the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago at the battle of Gallipoli.

"It was an epic achievement by your ancestors and ours a hundred years ago that has not been forgotten," Davutoglu said at a symbolic "summit for peace" in Istanbul to mark the start of the conflict in April 1915.

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