A Turkish song mourns its soldiers who were killed in Yemen
Song: It is an elegy for Yemen, Yemen Türküsü, and it tells of the sadness for the many soldiers who went to Yemen and did not return because they were killed in battles with the Yemenis.
Translation of the song's lyrics: by Professor Ahmet Koçkaroğlu - Ahmet Koçkaroğlu
Havada bulut yok bu ne dumandır The weather has no clouds, so what is this smoke?
There is no dead in the living, so what is this painful scream?
See Yemen again and again. These areas of Yemen are the harshest.
Ah o yemendir gülü çimendir Ah, this is Yemen and its roses are green grass
What is the reason for this?
Burası Huş'tur yolu yokuştur Here are bamboo branches (birch), their path is a difficult slope
The one who is going does not come again, I wonder what should be done?
Read more in front of the barracks there is a soldier's voice
Back then, look in his bag and see what he has.
Birthright kundurayla bir de fesi var a pair of shoes and there is also a fez
Ah o yemendir gülü çimendir Ah, this is Yemen and its roses are green grass
What is going and what is going does not come, I wonder why?
Burası Huş'tur yolu yokuştur Here are bamboo branches (birch), their path is a difficult slope
The one who is going does not come again, I wonder what should be done?
The Ottoman Empire ruled the land of Yemen for nearly four centuries over two different periods. It began in the sixteenth century AD during the reign of Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent,” during whose days the Ottoman Empire reached the highest levels of perfection and prosperity. Yemen emerged from the rule of the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Mehmed V in the year 1911. ad.
Turkish reinforcements found themselves repeatedly ambushed, and by 1905 Ottoman casualties reached more than 100,000.
