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20 Lira Battle of Gallipoli
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 20 Lira |
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| Obverse lettering | TÜRKİYE CUMHURİYETİ REPUBLIC OF TURKEY «Onlar, bu toprakta canlarını verdikten sonra artık bizim evlatlarımız olmuşlardır.» K.Atatürk · 20 Türk Lirası · (Translation: «They, after having lost their lives on this land, have become our sons as well.») |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued on the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, this coin commemorates one of the Ottoman Empire's few unambiguous military successes of the First World War — a nine-month Allied attempt to seize the Dardanelles that cost both sides roughly 500,000 casualties combined. The campaign made Mustafa Kemal's reputation; his order to the 57th Infantry Regiment at Chunuk Bair — "I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die." — became foundational mythology for the Turkish Republic he would later found.
The 57th Regiment was effectively annihilated carrying out that order. Turkey still does not field a regiment bearing that number.