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100th ANZAC Day: How Gallipoli Turned an Islamic Empire into Secular Country, and a Quote that Brings Tears To Every English Speaker's Eyes

4/25/2015

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PictureMustafa Kemal at Gallipoli
100 years ago on April 25, the legend of Officer Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938) began when his Ottoman Empire 19th Division withstood heavy Allied naval bombardment and decimated the Australian and New Zealand ANZAC ground troops in what is now called Anzac Cove. The ANZAC landing that established a short-lived Gallipoli peninsula foothold across the Dardanelles from Çanakkale, Turkey, is considered the D-Day of World War I. 

Kemal later took the name 
Atatürk, meaning "Father of the Turks," and his words to the ANZAC mothers brings tears to the eyes of every English-speaker who falls in love with the wonders of Turkey.


Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
                                             -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Although it is questioned whether Atatürk actually authored these words, the quote is consistent with ideals shared by humans across the world.
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First Lord of the British Admiralty and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a major architect of the failed attempt take Istanbul by way of the Dardanelles. 

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Photo:  Buildup to the Dardanelles Attack

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The Dardanelles is less than 4 miles (6 km) wide at its widest point and is only 340 feet (100 m) deep at its deepest.

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Seven months passed before the Ottomans were able to push the British and ANZAC forces back to sea, ending the Gallipoli Campaign. 

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On May 25, each side organized a truce that allowed them to bury their dead and in this case, help an enemy soldier who was still alive.

PictureAustralian soldier helps wounded Ottoman solder. Wikipedia.

After burying the dead, Ottoman and ANZAC soldiers take time to sit and speak with each other. 

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From the Turkish cemetery at Gallipoli
From Gallipoli and the Anzaks, a page that includes descriptions and photos from each battle location:

After May 19 the Anzac soldiers began to see the Turks as fellow sufferers and respect for their courage and prowess grew Within days of the attack the air was heavy with the smell of rotting corpses. A truce was arranged on May 24 to allow both sides to bury their dead. Captain Aubrey Herbert met and accompanied Turkish officers up the ridge from the beach to a plateau. He found the sight between the trenches and in the gullies ‘indescribable.' So awful was the stench that a Turkish Red Crescent official gave him antiseptic wool with scent to put over his nose. A Turkish officer said to Herbert:


At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage must weep.


Continuing on up the ridge, Herbert saw for himself the full effect of the Anzac bullets: 

They [Turkish dead] fill the myrtle-grown gullies. One saw the result of machine-gun fire very clearly: entire companies annihilated – not wounded, but killed, their heads doubled under them with the impetus of their rush and both hands clasping their bayonets. It was as if God had breathed in their faces …
     [Aubrey Herbert, Mons, Anzac and Kut, Hutchinson & Co, 1930]

Despite the tragedy of war, the humanity displayed during the truce and bravery by each side–English-speaking Allies and Turkish-speaking Ottomans–have resulted in mutual respect between Australia and Turkey that has persisted for 100 years.

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   ANZAC Cove in Turkey | Atatürk Park in Australia
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Why was Gallipoli (English title) or Çanakkale  (Turkish title) important for Turkish people?


NOTE: There is no Turkish national holiday that celebrates the Ottoman Empire victory at Gallipoli

Gallipoli was important for Turks because the Ottoman Sultanate had been considered the "Sick Man of Europe" for the previous 50 years.
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What happened to Mustafa Kemal, the hero of Gallipoli?

20 years after Gallipoli, 15 years after the Turkish War of Independence, and 12 years after the creation of the modern Republic of Turkey, Kemal introduced surnames to Turkey in 1935 and took the last name Atatürk, which means "Father of the Turks." 

Atatürk's Reforms were a series of political, legal, cultural, social, and economic policy changes that were designed to transform an Islamic empire into into a secular, modern nation-state.


Mustafa Kemal modernized and secularized the country by studying Western governments and adapting their structure for the people of Turkey. He believed that modernization necessarily entailed Westernization, and he established a policy of state secularism, with a constitution that separated the government from religion.

Atatürk replaced the Arabic alphabet with a Latin one, introduced the Gregorian calendar and urged people to dress in Western clothes. He industrialized the nation, establishing state-owned factories around the country as well as a railway network. And a multitude of new laws established legal equality between the sexes. Mustafa removed women’s veiling laws and gave women the right to vote.

Although he believed he was advancing the country, not all of Atatürk’s reforms were warmly received. His policy of state secularism was particularly controversial, and he was accused of decimating important cultural traditions.

Mustafa Kemal was married briefly from 1923 to 1925, and although he never fathered children, he adopted 12 daughters and one son. 

He died from cirrhosis of the liver on November 10, 1938.



http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/last-post-first-light/67997756/a-turkish-take-on-anzac-day

http://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2015/apr/22/anzac-cove-and-gallipoli-then-and-now-interactive

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=istaklal+march

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh4deHTbnCk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk%27s_Reforms

http://www.turizm.net/turkey/history/ataturk.html

https://en.wiki2.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign


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Simply Be with Peter's Feline - WPAHP of Budapest is Today's Featured Artist

4/16/2015

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Who and what is WPAHP?

We Plants Are Happy Plants is a one-man musical project by Peter Bergmann

Where is he from?


Budapest, Hungary


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Skyline of Budapest from Gellért Hill. Danube River which separates Buda and Pest. Photo by Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs - Own work

From Peter himself:

My mission is to create music that makes it possible for joy, happiness and ultimately upliftment to flow through the listener and to (if even for short lived moments) take you (and me) above mind created constructs, so we can really feel alive and ALLOW what is happening in the present moment.




THE NEW ALBUM BY WE PLANTS ARE HAPPY PLANTS
ABOUT JOY, APPRECIATION AND THE 
ENERGY THAT CREATES WORLDS
Songs About the Unspeakable
Listen on YouTube

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Recent creations from Peter and WPAHP
  1. New album on iTunes: Songs About The Unspeakable
  2. Daft Punk - Alive 2014 (presented by WPAHP)
  3. The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time 


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Any Day Now

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Why the Bible was Voted as this State's Official Book by the House of Representatives

4/16/2015

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The vote was even after the Tennessee Attorney General said the bill was unconstitutional.

Why? Honestly, it's because of their constituents. It's likely a symbolic vote that will eventually be vetoed by Governor Bill Haslam. What about 
The Koch Group?

The TN Senate votes on it today. . . the same Senate that voted against Haslam's Insure Tennessee Plan, putting hospital execs on edge and leaving 280,000 TN residents without health insurance.

The Senate Health Committee voted 7-4 last month to defeat Tennessee Governor Haslam's Insure Tennessee proposal that would have brought $2.8 billion in federal money into the state at no cost to the taxpayer.


For Insure Tennessee backers, hope is lost again


6 of 7 who killed Insure Tennessee are on state health plan


TN Senator has choice words for a protester


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http://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/s10.html

Obama health law:  Who was helped the LEAST?

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This NIDA, NICHD & NIMH-funded study recently found that small differences in family income were associated with relatively large differences in brain surface area in young people from the lowest-income families. The effect was smaller in higher-income families.

This 2015 Lancet study showed that poorer kids living in countries with greater income inequality were more likely to be in worse health, get less exercise, have more body fat, have lower life satisfaction, and report more physical and mental health symptoms, such as irritability and headache.


More studies to make you think about income inequality and healthcare . . .


Latest U.S. Census showed that medical expenses put 10.6 million people in poverty.


Medical woes decline for families eligible for insurance subsidies. 


Unfortunately, these 280,000 Tennessee residents can't be helped thanks to the Nay vote by TN state legislators.


When non-profit hospitals sue their poorest patients


Financial burden of medical care


Poverty leads to death for more Black Americans than Whites



More news from Nashville . . . 



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HUACHUMA - San Pedro Cactus [Video]

4/16/2015

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Sacred Plants as Guides:
New Dimensions of the Soul


Classic hallucinogen mescaline is the active compound in the San Pedro cactus. Mescaline is also found in the peyote cactus, a religious sacrament of the Huichol people of Mexico and the Native American Church of the United States.


Aubrey Marcus and friends travel to South America to experience a Huachuma ceremony that uses the San Pedro cactus.
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Peyote: Last of the Medicine Men


Roland Griffiths on the mystical experience 
occasioned by classic hallucinogen psilocybin.




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Peyote: Last of the Medicine Men - Shamans of the Huichol People

4/16/2015

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British adventurer Benedict Allen introduces us to the Huichol people of Mexico, where he had the rare privilege of taking part in a ritual ceremony with peyote, a cactus containing the classic hallucinogen mescaline.

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Huichol Shaman in Bolaños, Jalisco. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichol_people
San Pedro cactus is a South American plant sacrament that also contains mescaline. Watch this sacrament used in the documentary, HUACHUMA.
 
Like many indigenous American groups, Huichols have traditionally used the peyote (hikuri) cactus in religious rituals. Because of the visions and effects of the plant, the shaman is able to speak to the gods and ensure the regeneration of the Huichols' souls.
                                                       - From Wikipedia, "Huichol People"

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Representation of the Huichol god, Kauyumari (Blue Deer).

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The Huichol and Tepehuan Indians religion consists of four principal deities, the trinity of Corn, Blue Deer, Peyote and the Eagle, all descended from their Sun God, "Tao Jreeku." Quautlatas, the Tepehuan prophet said: "Peyote is everything, it is the crossing of the souls, it is everything there is. Without peyote nothing would exist". Schaefer has interpreted this to mean that peyote is the soul of their religious culture and a visionary sacrament that opens a pathway to the other deities.
                                                                  - From Wikipedia, "Peyote"

Sacred Plants as Guides:
New Dimensions of the Soul

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"Mexico's peyote casts mind-bending spell on tourists"

Roland Griffiths on the spiritual experience
occasioned by classic hallucinogen psilocybin.

The Happiness Cycle


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