The Order That Built Modern Turkey | Gallipoli 1915

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]In 1915, a 34-year-old colonel told his soldiers something no commander ever says.

[00:00:07]I do not order you to attack.

[00:00:09]I order you to die.

[00:00:11]>> [music] >> Mustafa Kemal commanded the 57th Regiment at Gallipoli as [music] Anzac forces stormed the ridge above him.

[00:00:19]He had no reinforcements.

[00:00:21]Holding the line for hours could buy time to save Constantinople itself.

[00:00:25]Biographer Andrew Mango calls it the single order that built modern [music] Turkey. The regiment died to the last man.

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[00:00:34]The long form on Ataturk and the decisions that defined a nation is coming.