Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.


Letter to Corinne Lütfü, from the Gallipoli peninsula (20 July 1917) as translated in Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey (2002) by Andrew Mango. ISBN 158567334X


Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.

Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.

Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.

Our life here is truly hellish. Fortunately, my soldiers are very brave and tougher than the enemy.