Hundreds gather in Turkey to remember WWI dead on Anzac Day

People gather to attend the Dawn Service ceremony at the Anzac Cove beach, the site of the April 25, 1915, World War I landing of the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, early Tuesday, April 25, 2023. [AP Photo]

Hundreds of people gathered by a beach near the former World War I battlefields on Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula on Tuesday to pay homage to soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who lost their lives in a disastrous campaign 108 years ago.

The Anzac Day services began as the first light broke on the peninsula in northwest Turkey, with a mournful Aboriginal didgeridoo performance and the singing of hymns and solemn songs.