Sarıkamış Şehitliği

A painful memory of an era. We always remember our hero martyrs and we test our prayers. The mountain in the back is the Allahuekber mountains. We respectfully commemorate our valiants who were martyred in another winter month of December.

A spiritual place

a sad monument with the names of all our martyrs written in their hometowns :( I think it could be done around in a more remarkable way.

It has a very beautiful air, a different feeling occurs, the heart of a person aches as soon as you see it, you feel cold and shiver when you think of it, you are talking in a whisper, as if you do not want to disturb, you must go and visit friends, they are waiting for you all of us.

Sarıkamış Martyrs Story The year is 1914… Place Sarıkamış… We had 78 thousand martyrs in Sarıkamış, 60 thousand of which were frozen. Between 15-22 December of 1914, 60 thousand soldiers who took part in the operation to take Kars back from the Russians died in the mountains of Allahuekber near Sarıkamış. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Enver Pasha, with great force, aimed to shoot the Russians from a place they never expected, through the mountains of Allahuekber and reintroduce Kars to the homeland. In the passages of the mountains of Allahuekber at altitudes of 2-3 thousand meters, the temperature dropped to 30 degrees below zero. Most of the Turkish soldiers came from the desert and had summer uniforms on them. In the book titled "Sarıkamış", Staff Officer Şerif Bey describes the situation of our soldiers under the freezing cold in Sarıkamış: “A soldier crouching in the snow beside the road embraced a pile of snow with his arms, trembling, crying, gnawing with his teeth. I wanted to lift it and send it to the road. He never saw me. The poor was crazy. Thus, in these cursed glaciers, we have left more than ten thousand people under the snow in one day and passed. ”

The soul of the people is cold, it shudders when we see this geography where 60 thousand soldiers were martyred. Along with spiritual feelings, you can empathize when you get seriously cold physically.

May the souls of all our martyrs be blessed.

With respect to the cherished memories of Atatürk and all our martyrs, who handed over these unique Anatolian lands, which are becoming more and more clear day by day, that each inch of land has a different importance, as the "Homeland"...