Kabatepe

Kabatepe, or Gaba Tepe,[1] is a headland overlooking the northern Aegean Sea in what is now the Gallipoli Peninsula National Historical Park (tr), on the Gallipoli peninsula in northwestern Turkey.

Kabatepe Museum, 2006

During the First World War, the headland was the site of an Ottoman artillery battery, known as "Beachy Bill,"[2] which constantly harassed the ANZAC troops around ANZAC Cove to the north throughout the Gallipoli Campaign.

Kabatepe Museum
A French infantry rifle from World War I in the museum

The Kabatepe Museum (in Turkish Kabatepe Müzesi) is located within the Gallipoli Peninsula National Historical Park.[3] It commemorates the Gallipoli Campaign, now considered a defining moment in the modern history of not only Turkey, but of Australia and New Zealand as well.

The museum hosts numerous relics from the campaign, including weapons, ammunition, uniforms, photographs, letters written by the soldiers to their families, and private belongings such as shaving tools, cocoa cases, leather flasks etc. There are also more shocking artifacts such as the skull of a Turkish soldier killed by a bullet to the forehead, and a soldier's shoe still containing a bone from the owner's foot.

References
  1. von Sanders, Otto Liman; Reichmann, Carl (tr.) (2014). Five Years In Turkey [Illustrated Edition]. Lucknow Books. ISBN 9781782892052. Retrieved Dec 11, 2021.
  2. Laidlaw, Private Victor. "Diaries of Private Victor Rupert Laidlaw, 1914-1984 [manuscript]". State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. "Kabatepe Müzesi". Gelibolu Yarimadasi Tarihi Milli Parki (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.

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