THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

April 1915 was not a ‘landing’ but an ‘invasion’. It is, however, a generous quote from a man who recognises that soldiers often simply have to do what they are told and he bears no ill-will against his former enemies. Comparatively little is known, let alone acknowledged, in Australia and New Zealand about the experience of Gallipoli from the point of view of the ordinary Turkish soldier. We have hundreds, probably thousands, of books and articles about the stories of young men from every region of Australia who perished at Gallipoli. But who were the Turks? Where did these men come from within Turkey? What did they see themselves as fighting for? What stories of Gallipoli would emerge from a view of the campaign as seen through the eyes of a Turkish soldier?

@Bootlace,
Sigh means I think you are full of **** Bootlace if you believe in the tired platitudes you are rolling out.
Multiculturalism has worked. Tell me how you want people to act, tell me what they are doing that so
distresses you, tell me how great Australia would be without the influence of migrants.
Tell me how bad modern Australia is - because I think it is pretty ******* terrific.

I'd love to pull your argument to bits, but you haven't presented one.
Do me a favour and read George Megalogenis's 'The Australian Moment'
and then tell me what a **** hole we live in.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, said the doctrine of state multiculturalism had encouraged
segregation:
"We have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives apart from each other and the mainstream.
We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong."

In October 2010, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, announced that
the multicultural society had failed:
"Of course the tendency had been to say 'let's accept the multicultural
concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each
other'. But this concept has failed, and failed utterly."

@Bootlace,
In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to the ANZACs killed at Gallipoli:

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives..
you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country.
Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours.
You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears.
Your sons are now living in our bosom and are in peace.
Having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

Mustafa Kemel Ataturk - 1934
ANZAC Memorial at Gallipoli, Turkey

I think both sides respected each other. As Msolga points out. I don't really see a drama. And they certainly handed us our arses on a platter.

Pity such a campaign was ever dreamed up.

Surely it's not too much, and we are grown-up enough, to have some sensitivity towards Australian Turks as we celebrate ANZAC Day?
Or at least have the generosity to acknowledge who they were, & what their side of the story was ..... the same as we have been acknowledged by them. Gallipoli is not just a story about us, though many of us can't seem to get beyond blind patriotism.

Dreamed up by none other than Winston Churchill.

I don't get the fear for the survival of Australian culture - truth be told I don't even know what Australian culture is - people will say it's a fair go, sticking up for the underdog, egalitarianism 0r looking after your mates - but none of those are uniquely Australian however much some of seem to think they are.

I'm glad my life has included Macedonian weddings, polynesian hungis, Fijian kava ceremonies, yorkshire pud and sauerkraut.