In a speech delivered following a cabinet meeting on March 24, 2025, Turkish President Erdoğan, commemorating the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I, which ended in a significant Ottoman victory, said: 

"The martyrs, who came from the four corners of our spiritual geography, from Syria to Gaza, from Aleppo to Tabriz, from Mosul to Jerusalem, lie in one another's arms at Gallipoli."