Gallipoli Games countries. The University Sports Federation of Turkey is managing the Games and the Turkish Government has provided funding of TRY 50 million. The first Games were due to be held 25-29 April 2005. However, in mid April 2015, the organisers decided to postpone the Games to tie in with the International Day of Peace on September 21. Games co-chairman Omer Mutlugun said "the postponement would allow the event to receive due international recognition and better mirror the games’ motto about competing for peace". Gallipoli Games The inaugural Gallipoli Games is being held in 2015 under the patronage of the Presidency
Gallipoli (1981 film) reading from "The Jungle Book" about how Mowgli has reached manhood and now must leave the family of wolves that raised him. Actor Mel Gibson commented, “Gallipoli was the birth of a nation. It was the shattering of a dream for Australia. They had banded together to fight the Hun and died by the thousands in a dirty little trench war." In an examination of "Gallipoli"'s enduring legacy, SBS Movies notes "The soldiers of "Gallipoli" head to war because it is expected of them, just as Australia headed to war because, as part of the British Empire, it was expected