Kabatepe, or Gaba Tepe, is a

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overlooking the northern

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in what is now the

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( tr), on the

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in northwestern

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. During the

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, the headland was the site of an Ottoman

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, known as "Beachy Bill," which constantly harassed the

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troops around ANZAC Cove to the north throughout the Gallipoli Campaign.

Kabatepe Museum

The Kabatepe Museum (in Turkish ''Kabatepe Müzesi'') is located within the Gallipoli Peninsula National Historical Park. It commemorates the Gallipoli Campaign, now considered a defining moment in the modern history of not only

, but of

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and

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as well. The museum hosts numerous relics from the campaign, including weapons, ammunition, uniforms, photographs, letters written by the soldiers to their families, and private belongings such as shaving tools, cocoa cases, leather flasks etc. There are also more shocking artifacts such as the skull of a Turkish soldier killed by a bullet to the forehead, and a soldier's shoe still containing a bone from the owner's foot.

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