When Mehmet Kurtdere was a boy, he and the other farmers' sons from the tiny Turkish village of Bigali would venture over the ridgeline near their home and look for treasure in the old trenches above Anzac Cove.
The rugged slopes and shingle beaches of Gallipoli, where tens of thousands of young men once fought and died, were "special" for Mr Kurtdere.
They were the places where his grandfather's stories came to life.
Waiting with rifle in hand when the first Diggers stormed the beaches in the dark before dawn on April 25, 1915, Mr Kurtdere's grandfather was shot twice by the Australian invaders.
But he lived to regale his grandson with tales about the Anzacs.
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