Editing Anzac Day (section)

==Commemoration at Gallipoli==
[[File:View_of_Anzac_Cove_-_Gallipoli_Peninsula_-_Dardanelles_-_Turkey_-_01_(5734713946).jpg|thumb|North Beach looking toward Suvla in Anzac Cove in [[Turkey]].]]
[[File:Gallipoli ANZAC Cove 2.JPG|thumb|North Beach with sphinx rock in the background in Anzac Cove in [[Turkey]].]]

In [[Turkey]] the name [[ANZAC Cove]] was officially recognised by the Turkish government on Anzac Day in 1985. That year, a monolith installed at [[Ari Burnu Cemetery]] (ANZAC Beach) was inscribed with a quotation attributed to [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Kemal Atatürk]] in 1934:

{{Blockquote|text=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.}}

The words also appear on the [[Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra]], and the Atatürk Memorial in [[Wellington]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=31 October 2023|title=Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal)|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/ataturk|website=[[Australian War Memorial]]|access-date=25 April 2024|archive-date=8 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108175038/https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/ataturk|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=23 November 2023|title=Atatürk memorial in Wellington|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/ataturk-memorial-wellington|website=New Zealand History|publisher=[[New Zealand Government]]|language=en}}</ref> However, despite the common attribution to Atatürk by governments and politicians from Australia and Turkey, historians have found no direct evidence that Atatürk ever spoke these words. A version of the quote first appeared in 1953 from a Turkish journalist with the later inclusion of the phrase "There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets" emerging in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stephens|first=David|date=23 April 2017|title='Johnnies and Mehmets': Kemal Ataturk's 'quote' is an Anzac confidence trick|url=https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/johnnies-and-mehmets-kemal-ataturks-quote-is-an-anzac-confidence-trick-20170423-gvqkrx.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>

In 1990, to mark the 75th anniversary of the [[Battle of Gallipoli|Gallipoli]] landing, government officials from Australia and New Zealand, including Australian Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]]<ref name="walkleys.com"/><ref name="McKenna"/> and New Zealand governor-general [[Paul Reeves]],<ref name="Modern Anzac Day"/> as well as most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, travelled to Turkey for a special Dawn Service at Gallipoli. The Gallipoli Dawn Service was held at the Ari Burnu War Cemetery at Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of people attending resulted in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, known as the Anzac Commemorative Site in time for the year 2000 service.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Anzac Commemorative site, just beyond the foreshore at North Beach|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C973252|access-date=23 November 2018|archive-date=23 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123120519/https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C973252}}</ref>

A ballot was held to allocate passes for Australians and New Zealanders wishing to attend Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli in 2015. Of the 10,500 people who could be safely, securely and comfortably accommodated at the Anzac Commemorative Site, in 2015 this comprised places for 8,000 Australians, 2,000 New Zealanders and 500 official representatives of all nations involved in the Gallipoli campaign. Only those who received an offer of attendance passes attended the commemorations in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gallipoli2015.dva.gov.au|title=Welcome to the Gallipoli 2015 website|work=gallipoli2015.dva.gov.au|access-date=23 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815215758/http://www.gallipoli2015.dva.gov.au/|archive-date=15 August 2015}}</ref>