Hi dave

There will be a heap of interest in this as we get nearer and I wonder if its time to get admin to sort out a separate Hubb site for it? How do you go about it

cheers :freezing

Good to see that this is gaining some momentum. I like the idea of a common thread for this as it looks like people could be arriving from several directions and by different means. I'm in Japan at the moment but could be anywhere come March/April 2015 and it would be good to be able to connect with other ANZAC riders in my local at the time to ride to ANZAC Cove in company.

Hi Robtho,
We offer a few different tours of Turkey and for 2015 we have a 10 day and 21 day tour. You can check them out at;
http://www.compassexpeditions.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172&Item id=

Scroll down until 2015.
It would be great to have you riding with us.

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No problem, you did fine! Question is, do you want to go on a tour where someone does it all for you - or do you want to be part of a group of HUers for instance who organise it together and just go and do your thing?

I suspect there will be several tour companies offering tours, and that's a great way to go for many reasons.

There will also be people who'd just like to meet up somewhere and ride together and be there on the day. Should be a great day.

Rentals in Turkey will be at a premium for those who want to fly in and rent, so book your bike early!

Also Zeki has said the "Istanbul Bisiklet Motosiklet" club will be doing lots for the event. They're a great group and I'm sure they'll do a terrific job of organising it all.

It could be a separate forum, and yes we could do that if it seems necessary. For now let's see how this thread goes, let people know about it, and we can always promote it to a new forum if necessary. (Though I'd rather not for all sorts of search and legacy reasons). We can also just keep this thread going, perhaps another one or two as well as needed for appropriate subjects, and we can make them sticky too. As long as people give new threads good subjects this is as good a place as any. All one place and lots of other viewers already without having to send them anywhere new / different confusing.

Pass the word around, and let's see what we can make happen!

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I am a bit unsure about this, but I heard that this year the peninsular was closed off to normal traffic and only tour buses were allowed through, unless there was booked accomodation at the hotels there.

Craig Idema mentioned this to me when I tried to arrive at this years, but I was two days late anyway

Maybe Mehmet can advise on what is allowed during the ceromony times, I know he goes by bus from Istanbul

Cheers
TS

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Sure our club will organise a most hospitable organisation for 2015-Anzac Day in Gelibolu.Did all the official and personal pre-interviews with authorities including Ministry of Tourism,Mayor and Governor of Çanakkale, Dean of 18.Mart.University, some local and sponsor companies and most importantly some authorities in Australia and New Zealand..

Been personally there several times in december-2011,january-2012,march 17-18,April 22-26.In mid september will be there again for some important meetings.The project file will be ready and presented to all within few months.

Personally this is my dream as being a grand grand son of one of the honorable soldiers who have lost their lives there.

Sorry to say that it's very hard to make plannings even for 2 years forward in this part of the world.
1-Things change so fast.
2-Elections.
Municipalty in 2013
Presidency in 2014
General Elections in 2015
3-Politicsmen always forget their promises and try to make good happenings an advertising material for their political parties here.This is an important, meaningfull and respectful activity so we all hope all promises will be kept.

And the good news;
1-All bikers will be hosted at the university.
2-We will be able to stay 1 day and night in a military base there where all soldiers will be under 1915 military uniforms and we all will be offered same meals they had in 1915.
3-We will visit all the battlefields,cemeteries,bays and monuments on bikes.
AND LET THE REST BE NICE SURPRISE WHICH WILL BE ANNOUNCED HERE.

And pleasure for us to take this as a chance to thank to hundreds and hundreds of marvellous allies who has been to our club and honoured us.
And very sorry for the English grammar mistakes you may meet.

Best Regards

Mehmet Zeki Avar

Hi,

I'm very keen to attend Mehmet's club event. I too have family connections to the Galipoli campaign and I've always wanted to ravel east as far as Turkey.

But this topic seems a bit old, is there another thread that I'm missing?

Regs

Simon
PS Mehmet - your English grammar is probably better than mine - and I was a teacher

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