The 1915 Çanakkale Battles Sanitary Museum and Alçıtepe Hilal-i Ahmer Hospital Open Air Exhibition, which was created under the leadership of the Historical Site Directorate to convey the health services behind the front lines to visitors, has become the center of attention of visitors.
The museum and exhibition portray the healthcare services provided to the injured in Hilal-i Ahmer hospitals, from doctors to nurses, from caregivers to other healthcare personnel, with wax sculptures inspired by photographs from the period. Visitors can experience emotional moments thanks to this realistic narrative.
In the museum and exhibition area, details such as laboratory studies carried out in hospitals, oral and dental treatments, and the wards of wounded soldiers, women and children are portrayed with models, allowing visitors to literally travel back to that period.
The trench recreation area reflects the spirit of war
In the area created at the back of the exhibition area, diaries and period photographs of the soldiers who participated in the Çanakkale Land Wars are selected and a day in the trenches is recreated. Sections of the events taking place during the battles are supported by voice-over.
In the recreation of the trench line, which is 330 meters long and consists of 12 sections, the headquarters, the machine gun, the sewer tunnel entrance, the soldiers who went to the attack, the soldiers drinking soup and resting in the caravan, and the martyrs in the collapsed trench are also included.
Turkey’s 5th most visited museum
This area has become a frequent destination for visitors to the region on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Land Wars.
The area, which was visited by 13-14 thousand visitors daily during Ramadan Feast, became the 5th most visited museum in Turkey.
Çanakkale Wars Gallipoli Historical Area President İsmail Kaşdemir told the AA correspondent that this region is one of the most visited places by visitors in the historical area.
of the field, “Canakkale spirit”Kaşdemir stated that it has become a place where one can feel better, travel in a time tunnel and experience the historical atmosphere. “Especially during the last Ramadan Bayram holiday, around 2 million visitors came to the peninsula. This is the highest number of visitors we have ever seen.” said.
“A trench war in which the distance between trenches drops to 8-9 meters”
Kaşdemir stated that they dream that there will be no citizen who does not see Çanakkale, does not visit it, and does not breathe the “Çanakkale spirit”.
Kaşdemir emphasized that they want every Turkish child to come running to Çanakkale and understand better how these lands were made a homeland, and continued as follows:
This is an open air museum. The best preserved battlefield in the world. We strive to preserve and protect the heirloom works of our ancestors and pass them on to future generations. Çanakkale Land Wars is a trench war in which great struggles took place in the trenches of both sides for months and the distance between the trenches decreased to 8-9 meters. We are trying to convey both the difficult and painful sides of the war here in the hospital garden. And right next to it, we portray a real Turkish trench in the conditions of that period and convey it to the visitor. What does a Mehmetçik do in the trench, how does he lie down, how does he sleep, what does he eat and drink, how does he spend his time; In this reenactment area, we recreate life in the trenches.
İsmail Kaşdemir explained that this area appeals to many emotions.
Describing the region as emotionally charged places, Kaşdemir continued his words as follows:
We see that many visitors come here and are so emotional that they cannot control their tears at times. We tell the real and painful face of the war to the visitors. ‘Çanakkale spirit’ is a very high character, a state of mind that emerges as a result of a very high emotion. Every Turkish child definitely has the ‘Çanakkale spirit’ in their heart. This feeling, this spirit, is more revealed here and surrounds people.
