It commemorates a number of Turkish soldiers who were the first Turkish casualties of the struggle at the Dardanelles between November 1914 and January 1916. 

The fort contained a number of guns and a powerful searchlight. On 3 November 1914, British warships, four days after the outbreak of war with Turkey, shelled Sedüllbahir and Kumkale on the Asian shore. 

A lucky shot hit the ammunition magazine at Sedüllbahir which exploded killing 89 of the garrison and shattering many of the heavy guns at the fort.

A dense pall of smoke hung in the short November afternoon over the entrance to the Dardanelles as the British warships turned away, with a few Turkish shells splashing harmlessly in the sea. [Rhodes James, Gallipoli, London, 1999, p.13]

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