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Mehmetçik Monument

Polatlı, Turkey · built 2008

Mehmetçik Monument (Kartaltepe Mehmetçik Monument) is a monumental sculpture featuring a Turkish soldier on Kartaltepe of Polatlı, a rural area of Ankara Province, Turkey. The name of the monument Mehmetçik is the diminutive form of the common name Mehmet, which is used to nickname Turkish soldiers.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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