Anzac Cove Roadworks

[Aliantha]

Well, it's my understanding that no one intended to actually excavate human remains. What happened was entirely accidental.

The problem is, the whole site is littered with bodies, but thousands of people want access to the site every year. The Turkish government really had no choice but to build a road, and they did consult with the relevant authorities in Australia about the location of the road.

To me, this is more about unhealed wounds where some Australian people still want to hate the Turkish for doing what they themselves would have been ordered to do had the position been reversed.

It is a terrible time in our history and really did define us as a nation in a lot of ways. It changed our history forever.

I'm just not sure that there should be this uproar over what was first of all, an accident, and secondly, towards a country that has virtually gifted a huge tract of land to Australia and New Zealand and still bears the cost of caring for the site on a day to day basis. The Turkish people have shown that they'd like to honour us and our spirit. I just wish Australian people could see that although we should never forget, we must acknowledge that the world has changed. Old enemies are not our enemies now.