Acknowledgements

The Editor and the Australian-Turkish Friendship Society would like to thank the following people and organisations:

The Victorian Minister for Education, the Hon. Ian Cathie, and the Victorian International Year of Peace 1986 Consultative Committee for the grant that made the publication of this book possible.

Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Jeremy Salt and Harvey Broadbent for their voluntary contributions as speakers at the Conference and with their papers for this publication; also for their comments on various aspects of this publication including the Editor’s translations of the two poems by Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca.

Professor T. Muraoka, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Melbourne University, for his cooperation and support for the Conference held in May 1985, where the papers in Part A of this publication were first presented.

The Turkish Commission of Military History for permission to reprint three articles by Necati Ökse, Tarık Zafer Tunaya and Özer Özankaya from the ‘International Review of Military History, No. 50, Ankara, 1981’ — a special issue dedicated to Atatürk on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (hence the emphasis in these papers on the role of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as a commander at Gallipoli and later as the leader of the Turkish revolution). The articles by Ökse and Tunaya were translated by Professor Ahmet E. Uysal.

Professor İlhan Başgöz, editor of the ‘Turkish Studies Series’, Indiana University, U.S.A., for permission to reprint the story by Sait Faik from ‘A Dot on the Map — Selected Stories’ (edited by Talat Sait Halman). The story was translated by Allan and Peggy Gall.

Nermin Menemencioğlu, editor of the Penguin Book of Turkish Verse, for permission to reprint a selection of poems — all translated by Menemencioğlu with the exception of the poem by Mehmet Akif Ersoy which was translated by Bernard Lewis.

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca for permission to include the translations of the two poems from the Epic of Dardanelles (Çanakkale Destanı, Kitap Yayınları, İstanbul, 1965).

Uluğ İğdemir, retired President of the Turkish Historical Society, for supplying a copy of his book on Atatürk’s Gallipoli speech (‘Atatürk and the Anzacs, Turkish Historical Society Publications, Series XX, No. 6, Ankara, 1978’).

Ak Yayınları (AKBANK Publications) for permission to reproduce the water-colour paintings by Hayrettin Çizel from ‘Mustafa Kemal Çanakkaleyi Anlatıyor’ (1981).

Thanks are also due to Dr Marian Kent of Deakin University for her comments on the paper by Lesleyanne Hawthorne and on this publication in general; to Kemal Gündüz Özüdoğru for the copy of Dağlarca’s ‘Çanakkale Destanı’; to Iris and David Hocking for the photo from the Anzac Cove Ceremony, April 1985; to the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Australian Airlines for grants for the printing of Conference brochures; and to all who helped with the production of this publication.

The Editor thanks especially the Executive Members of the Australian-Turkish Friendship Society, Mahmut Horasan, Gülay and Serdar Avgar and Sevim Akçelik, and all other members and friends of the Society for their continual support and valuable contributions to the activities of the Society.