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• Turkey's own modern father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, what he did for the veterans of the ANZACs who died on his home soil after the war definitely counts. He formally gave a speech in honor of the enemy dead from Australia and New Zealand, assuring their mothers that their fallen now slept on the soil of a peaceful country that bore them no hatred. A memorial now stands in Canberra, Australia, bearing his words, which reads:

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 lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

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