ANZAC facts

• The ANZACs were all volunteers.
• April 25, Anzac Day, was the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915.
• 25 April, was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916.
• The first dawn service on an ANZAC Day was in 1923.
• AIF is an abbreviation for Australian Imperial Force.
• ANZAC Day was not a public holiday in New Zealand until 1921.
• ANZAC Day was not a public holiday in Australia until 1921. However it was not observed uniformly in all the states.
• The Gallipoli Peninsula is very near the famous ancient city of Troy.
• The term ANZAC is protected under Australian law.

ANZAC

Last week we were learning about ANZAC and I was working with Skyla we did some research about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.Why he was famous  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in 1881 in the former Ottoman Empire. As a young man, he was involved with the Young Turks, a revolutionary group that deposed the sultan in 1909. Ataturk led the Turkish War of Independence and signed the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which made Turkey a republic. Interesting facts about Mustafa.

• Mustafa Kemal was the Turkey's first president
• He is thr Trukish army leader for the world war 1
• He replaced the Arabic alphabet with a Latin one and introduced the Gregorian calendar to Turkey.
• The name Kemal came later. At 12 years old, Mustafa was sent to the military academy in Istanbul.

• He was born March 12, 1881, in Salonika, which was then known as part of the Ottoman Empire, today his birthplace is known as Thessalonika, in modern-day Greece.

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