BiH / Sanski Most: The 103rd anniversary of the crucial battle for the survival of the Turkish people was celebrated

The moment of silence, the laying of wreaths, the study of fragments from the Qur'an and the dove, by intoning the hymns of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey, and the torching on Sunday, the 103th anniversary of the Battle of Canakkale was celebrated at the site of the monument to Turkish Shekhids in Donji Kamengrad near Sanski Most.

The battle that took place in the First World War occupies one of the most important places in the history of Turkey.

The celebration began with the intonation of the anthem, and in the presence of a large number of citizens of Sanski Most, representatives of EUFOR and other guests, the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to BiH laid flowers and wreaths on the memorial to the Shekhid Haldun Koc, the President of the Turkish Military Mission in BiH, Brigadier Alp Ozdemir, municipality of Sanski Most, Travnik and Busovaca.

Hasan Atli, attorney for religious affairs at the Turkish embassy in BiH, and the main imam of the Islamic Community of the Islamic Community in Sanski Most, Husein ef Kovacevic, also attended the celebration. Atli studied the dowry in front of the souls of the martyrs in Arabic, Turkish and Bosnian, while Kovacevic studied the dowry at the site of the musalle of the Ottoman ruler of sultan Mehmed Fatih, the most western site he had come to hike to Bosnia.

The head of the Sanski Most municipality, Faris Hasanbegović, said that Sanski Most was traditionally host to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Canakkale, that is, the Day of the Shekids.

Recalling that today many will wonder why this anniversary is celebrated in B & H and Sanski Most, Hasanbegović noted that during the Battle of Canakkale, a large number of thousands of Bosniaks who had participated in this battle had laid their lives.

"We live in a time in which everyone knows everything and in which it has never been harder to discern good from evil." The Bosniaks easily and too often renounce their history, and therefore our children must know that according to estimates in today's Turkey there are up to two million Bosniaks. we have to work hard to keep them alive, but on the contrary, we have to do everything to preserve their identity and the connection with the country of BiH. Indeed, a common past 500 years in the past should be the basis for a common future that is further based on the development of economic and social relations for mutual benefit, Hasanbegovic said.

Ambassador Koc thanked the city of Sanski Most in his speech in the Bosnian and Turkish languages, as he hosted the celebration of the anniversary of the famous battle, and said that the victory at Canakkale was a victory for the survival of the Turkish people.

• 18 Mar, 2018
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