{"id":70485,"date":"2015-05-07T02:12:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=70485"},"modified":"2022-11-23T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:21:19","slug":"peace-looks-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/05\/07\/peace-looks-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACE LOOKS LIKE THIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70492\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/peterfitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-70492 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/tr\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/peterfitz.jpg\" alt=\"Peter FitzSimons\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter FitzSimons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"authorName\">When the actual Lone Pine service finishes in the early afternoon of Anzac\u00a0Day, the problem for so many Australian attendees, who haven&#8217;t slept for the previous 36 hours is that it takes as long as \u2013 and I&#8217;m not making this up \u2013 EIGHT HOURS for the jam of buses to clear. Finally, though, most of the last lot get to the wharves where a ferry awaits to take them across the straits of the\u00a0Dardanelles\u00a0to\u00a0Cannakale. They&#8217;re all, not to put too fine a point on it, buggered, and slump in their seats. At least most of them do. Not, however, the Barker Choir and Band, some 200 strong. Even as the ferry waits for the last stragglers to arrive, the young&#8217;uns assemble on the foredeck and start to sing and play. Oh, how they sing and play. The ethereal harmonies of\u00a0<em>Waltzing Matilda, Run To You,\u00a0Nearer\u00a0My God To Thee<\/em>,\u00a0the Australian and New Zealand National anthems rise rich and beautiful into the Turkish twilight, as even the\u00a0passengers\u00a0on other ferries come out to watch on their verandas. They clap, they join in, some dance\u00a0<em>&#8216;neath the diamond sky, with one\u00a0handwaving free, silhouetted by the sea<\/em>.\u00a0And now, the final touch. As the last stragglers arrive\u00a0and the Turkish guides who have been so good to them all start to wave goodbye and walk to the bus that is to take them back to Istanbul, <em>the Barker choir instantly switches into a fabulous rendition of the Turkish national anthem.<\/em> The guides stop, the wharf workers and security guards stare open-mouthed, the police and soldiers snap to attention. At the end, the Turks, the Australians and New Zealanders all together \u2013 100 years on to the day since the beginning of the devastating battle that killed over 100,000 of\u00a0our citizens \u2013 cheer and clap wildly.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"authorName\"><strong>Peace between our fine nations. It looks like this.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>smh.com.au, May 3, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a footage\u00a0from the occasion<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the actual Lone Pine service finishes in the early afternoon of Anzac\u00a0Day, the problem for so many Australian attendees, who haven&#8217;t slept for the previous 36 hours is that it takes as long as \u2013 and I&#8217;m not making this up \u2013 EIGHT HOURS for the jam of buses to clear. Finally, though, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":70492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[7564,4051,9784,9861,9862,4763],"class_list":["post-70485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-anzac-day","tag-anzacs","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-the-barker-choir-and-band","tag-turkish-national-anthem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}