Actually, the Çanakkale war was the beginning of the Turkish independence war and we fought against the strongest states in the world and it wasn’t only the Turkish history that changed but also the world’s history changed too.
18 March 1915 was the most important date in the war because the British and French battle ships couldn’t pass through the Bosporus of Çanakkale and they lost the most important battle ships in this day and they understood that the passing of the Bosporus of Çanakkale was impossible.
In 25 April 1915 they started the war on land. Turkish troops who were ordered by Mustafa Kemal stopped the occupation forces at the Conk slope, whereby his famous order is ” I don’t order you to the battle, I order you to the death” Why he ordered this? Because, we lost all good fighters and we didn’t have enough weapon for the fight. Our soldiers were generally teenager volunteers from school and older people and their weapons weren’t enough but they fought and stopped the occupation forces.
This victory was the awakening of our nation again. Çanakkale is the re-borning of one nation again in the history. The Turkish independence war was started in Çanakkale with this spirit of struggle.