History

The Battle of Gallipoli : Hell !

Aug 20th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Editor's Choice, History, Interesting Photos, Other

Well, I wanted to write interesting and important things about one of the bloodiest wars of all times, The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Anatolian land called Gallipoli (Canakkale in Turkish) in 1915, during the First World War. Can you imagine the terror of that war? Even, the bullets were crashing each other [...]



Bashi-bazouks : Ottoman Army of Mads

Aug 20th, 2008 | By admin | Category: History, Interesting Photos, Other

The cartoon drawing that you see near is an imaginary scene from Bashi-baozuks attacking to enemy without any clothes by famous Turkish caricaturist Bahadir Boysal.
There is a legend that Ottoman army put crazy people on to the horses naked and sent them fiercely to enemy army. The enemies couldn’t understand what the hell these strange [...]