Los poetas turcos y la batalla de Gallipoli

Abstract

The battle of Gallipoli supposes for the Turks a victory within the framework of a whole series of territorial lost defeats that took place all throughout the Eastern Question. Turkey managed to stop the advance of the allies in its attempt to run the blockade of Russia and the conquest of Istanbul. The present article has an historical introduction to the conflict and the translation and edition of a whole series of poetry whose thematic is this war. The poems came from three places: the palace and the sultan, with a poetry where the call to the holy war is present, the Yihad; the second is the nationalists with authors like Ziyad Gökalp or Mehmed Akif Ersoy, with the defense of the motherland and, most touching, the third is the one of the soldiers who were fighting there. Of all of them they are very much impressing the reflections produced by the fact of to have seen the wounded as well as the reflexion on the foreign aggression represented by the British, Russian and French armies.