Turks - Crowd pictures

**Proto-Shaman** · 03-13-2014, 07:10 PM

not crowd but cool picture

**LightHouse89** · 03-13-2014, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Kipchak Håkan

not crowd but cool picture

is that a picture from ww1?

**LightHouse89** · 03-13-2014, 08:09 PM

what is the video aboot?

**Proto-Shaman** · 03-13-2014, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by NormanDePoer

is that a picture from ww1?

yes.

**LightHouse89** · 03-13-2014, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Kipchak Håkan

yes.

kind of figured he is carrying a shell of some kind for a howitzer or something.

**PlanA** · 03-13-2014, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by NormanDePoer

kind of figured he is carrying a shell of some kind for a howitzer or something.

He is one of the many Turkish heroes. Rest in Peace for him.

Seyit Ali Çabuk (1889-1939), usually called Corporal Seyit (Turkish: Seyit Onbaşı) was a First World War gunner in the Ottoman Army. He is famous for having carried three shells to an artillery piece during the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915.
Born in the village of Havran, he enlisted into the army in April 1909. After serving in the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 he was transferred to the forts defending the Mediterranean entrance to the Dardanelles. Following the heavy naval bombardment of the forts guarding the Narrows on 18 March 1915, the gun he was serving in the Mecidiye fort remained operational but its shell crane had been damaged. Corporal Seyit, by himself, carried three artillery shells weighing 275kg. to the 240/35 mm gun and enabled it to continue firing on the Allied Fleet. One of the shells reputedly hit the British pre-dreadnought HMS Ocean, although the ship was sunk by a mine laid by the minelayer Nusret.
Following the repulse of the naval assault, Seyit was promoted to corporal and publicised as an iconic Turkish hero.
He was discharged in 1918 and became a forester and later coal-miner. He took the surname Çabuk in 1934 with the passing of the Surname Law. He died of a lung disease in 1939.
A statue of him carrying a shell was erected in 1992, just south of Kilitbahir Castle on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

**Barbarian** · 04-22-2014, 02:38 PM

I thought this was a picture thread, why is every page full of dumb arguments?

Kayseri

**gültekin** · 05-02-2014, 12:26 AM

frome Turkey/Ankara

**Kemalisté** · 05-02-2014, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by NormanDePoer

kind of figured he is carrying a shell of some kind for a howitzer or something.

This guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyit_Çabuk

He carried three artillery shells weighing 273 kg. but on the photo it's just a wooden shell; after the war he was asked to take a photo but he failed to lift the shell again thus they used a wooden shell...