İSTİKLÂL MARŞI’MIZI ANLAMAK

A nationwide competition was held for selecting the national anthem of the new born Turkish Republic after the Turkish war of independence. A total of 724 poems were submitted to this event. The original Turkish National Anthem the 10-verse poem (Istiklal Marsi in Turkish, meaning the ´Independence March’), was written by Mehmet Akif Ersoy and officially adopted on March 12, 1921 by the Turkish Grand National Assembly.