The future of the Gallipoli peninsula Towards 2023

Abstract

A powerful narrative inscribed onto the landscape of Gallipoli has been shaped by the post-WWI secularist citizens of Turkey, and has focused on the important role played in the battles by the nation's founder Mustafa Kemal Pasha: Ataturk. Proponents of this narrative associate the landscape of Gallipoli primarily with the heroism and tenacity demonstrated by the nation's founder, a key military figure in the Gallipoli battles. Depending on national, political, and religious orientations, visitors to the Gallipoli peninsula follow different routes through the landscape. The itineraries of non-Turkish tourists typically highlight the iconic moments and places experienced on the peninsula by the Allied troops, and/or the Commonwealth and War Graves Commissions' tidy cemeteries and commemorative monuments. The Legend of Gallipoli was part of a much larger project, initiated in 2005 by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs to develop the touristic infrastructure of the Gallipoli peninsula.