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architect Nejat Dinçel it was officially opened on 10 December 1992 by the
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British Army and, First Lieutenant Mustafa Asım from Erzincan, the commander of the 6th company of the 57th Regiment. Their bodies together with their identification tags and amulet were subsequently reburied in 1993 at the place where they were first found in the northern part of the cemetery, right in front of the monument.
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The complex was restored and reopened to the public on 18 March 2011. The largely symbolic cemetery contains the names of many servicemen randomly selected to be inscribed on headstones or plaques on the walls. According to a sign at the site, the names of 1,817 soldiers who lost their lives are
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On the eastern wall of the cemetery is a 45m bas-relief created by the sculptor Metin
Yurdanur, which depicts the regiment’s counterattack on the 25 April. The complex was damaged in the forest fire on 25 July 1994, it was repaired and reopened to the public on 11 November 1994.
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remembered, including 25 officers. Among those buried in the cemetery is the Greek doctor of the regiment, Captain
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