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Türkiye marks 108th anniversary of Çanakkale victory

"The victory of Çanakkale is a great and historic epic of heroism, in which the Turkish nation once again declared to the world that it will never give up its independence," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a statement on Saturday.

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Victory against the Allied forces boosted the morale of the Turkish side, which then went on to wage a war of independence in 1919-1922, and eventually formed a republic in 1923 from the ashes of the old empire.