I send warmest wishes to all of you during your devout pilgrimage.” On Anzac Day 1934, in response to a request from an Australian newspaper, the Star, Ataturk had Ataturk’s message to the Star was republished with slight variations in other newspapers across the world.Four years earlier, Ataturk – again responding to an Australian media request – These are, undoubtedly, laudatory sentiments about the Anzacs. Juni 1918, zitiert in Dietrich Gronau: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk oder die Geburt der Republik. After having lost their lives on this soil they have become our sons as well.”Other English translations vary slightly. La mort dun Empire aus dem Jahr 1954. Ozeken read to the Gallipoli veteran a section from the book he attributed to Ataturk: “Those heroes that shed their blood in this country! Französische Quellen verwenden das mutmaßliche Zitat nicht, legen es als Zuschreibung aus. The words demonstrably spoken in 1931 by Kaya at Kemalyeri, Gallipoli, on his leader’s behalf carries little of the tone of the contested 1934 Ataturk speech.According to Ozakinci’s English interpretation of the speech, it reads in part: “With honour and pride do we see that the great states who fought with the greatest force and might against this place look with respect and appreciation at Kemalyeri and the great Turk that it was named after. Kemal Atatürk , auch als Mustafa Kemal Atatürk bezeichnet, war der Begründer de… We know that the indestructible Turkish state that these glorious heroes established and protected is the highest monument of universal nature that will always make them be remembered with love.“Across we see the graves and monuments of the warriors that fought us. They are serenely in peace. Australian obituaries followed. Having fallen here now, they have become our own sons.”The words – while literally similar, and evocative in emotional tone and intent of those questionably attributed to Ataturk on memorials at Anzac Cove, on Anzac Parade in Canberra and in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington – do not mention “the Johnnies and the Mehmets” together. 43 quotes from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: 'Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. translating into English these words, which he considers to be ‘a very meaningful speech that Ataturk had Şukru Kaya read out in Gallipoli in 1934’ … Campbell informs Igdemir that they added these words to the monument made in Australia making slight alterations and with Ataturk’s signature under them and sent Igdemir a photograph of the monument together with a letter dated May 31, 1978.“A look at the photo reveals that the slight changes made by the Australians are (ı) adding the statement ‘there is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us’; (ıı) changing the date 1934 sent by Igdemir into 1931; (ııı) changing Ataturk’s first name Kemal into Kamel.“In his response to Campbell on June 8, 1978, Igdemir points out that the year 1931 should be changed into 1934, and Kamel into Kemal; however, he did not ask for removal of the statement ‘there is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us’ that the Australians added to the monument as Atatürk’s words, and expresses that he likes the addition to ‘Atatürk’s beautiful words’.”In Ataturk and the Anzacs, Igdemir – whose state-sponsored official history society Ataturk founded in 1931 – uses two versions of the purported 1934 speech: one in Turkish with no mention of the Johnnies, and the amended one with the addition of them that he had apparently later accepted from Campbell.Of the famous statement attributed to Ataturk in 1934 that adorns Anzac monuments, the speeches of Australian prime ministers and which stands as a cornerstone of the Anzac legend, Ozakinci writes: “However, in 1934 Ataturk did not give such a speech.“The words that appear with the signature ‘Ataturk 1934’ in the English inscriptions on the monuments erected in Canberra (Australia), Wellington (New Zealand), and Ariburnu (Turkey), that address . None even mention the “Johnnies”.The veteran, delighted at Ataturk’s purported words, swapped personal details with Ozeken.Ozeken wrote the words down for the veteran to take home, which he did, and read them to a Brisbane Anzac veterans’ meeting.Ozeken, in an October 1977 letter to Ulug Igdemir, head of the Turkish Historical Society, said he’d “mentioned [to the Australian] the remarkable statement which I suppose had been made by Ataturk while on a visit to ... the battlefields in the years between 1928-1931”.Ozeken’s letter to Igdemir enclosed another from an Australian Gallipoli veteran, “We were all very impressed by your quotation by that greatest Turk, Ataturk, by the side of Quinn’s post at Anzac, we think it a very wonderful statement and we would be anxious to have it inscribed upon a metal plaque on the Fountains,” Campbell wrote.According to Igdemir (who reproduces letters between Ozeken, Campbell and himself in his society’s 1978 book, Igdemir drew a blank, writing that the guide book “has provided no sources whatever” and that he could find “no information concerning the visit of Ataturk to the battlefield in the Dardanelles and the talks delivered by him in the area”.But writing in Ataturk and the Anzacs, Igdemir recounts how he told Campbell by letter that he had found a reference in a November 1953 newspaper article to an interview with Ataturk’s then ageing former interior minister, Sukru Kaya. . ‘The Johnnies’ (Anzac soldiers) and their mothers, and that include the expression ‘There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets’, which we have proven to belong to the Australian Alan J. Campbell, do not belong to Ataturk.”The only statement Ataturk did issue in relation to Australia in 1934 was his brief written statement to the Star newspaper around Anzac Day, Ozakinci writes. But they are not the same.Ataturk died in 1938. Even then, he points out, those words were not specific to Anzacs.Ozakinci reveals Kaya did make a speech at Gallipoli for Ataturk. But it was in 1931.He reproduces an official news agency report of a speech Kaya made in August 1931 that, while highly emotive and paying passing tribute to foreign soldiers who died at Gallipoli, gives far greater emphasis to the bravery of Turkish defenders and refers to the force in which the Anzacs fought as “invaders”. They are also similar to those Yeo heard spoken at Gallipoli in 1960.

I would like not to be grieved by this.