The responsibility of guarding Atatürk tomb falls to the Turkish Armed Forces, a combination of the Turkish Land Forces, the Turkish Naval Forces, and the Turkish Air Forces. Like many such national monuments, they have changing of the guard ceremonies. We were fortunate enough to be there for one.
Interesting how different militaries show respect by their movements at various tombs worldwide TB.
ReplyDeleteIt really is, Nylon12. We fortunate to be there to see it.
DeleteWe watched a similar changing of the guard at Greece's equivalent to the tomb of the unknown solider. It was quite interesting seeing the different costumes and procedures and later reading about why they did things a certain way.
ReplyDeleteEd, these very much put national traditions and understandings on display.
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