The Budapest Turkish Memorial Cemetery ( tr, Budapeşte Türk Şehitliği) is a burial ground of Ottoman soldiers in

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. It is situated as a section within

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's largest cemetery of New Public Cemetery ( hu, Új köztemető) at

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district of the city. Ottoman soldiers are buried in the cemetery, who participated on the Galicia front during the

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. Established in 1926, the Turkish Memorial Cemetery holds 480 soldiers of

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, who fought in Galicia as part of the

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under the command of German Empire's South Army in the summer of 1916. Eleven graves are of unknown soldiers. The cemetery is walled and covers an area of with a graveyard section of . A plate on the entrance denotes the property. The

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waves on a flagpole in the cemetery. Commemoration ceremonies are held at site every year on March 18, the Martyrs' Day in Turkey, by Turkish officials and on November 1, the

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, by Hungarians. High ranked Turkish politicians officially visiting Budapest pay tribute to the burials at the Turkish Cemetery. For the preservation and maintenance of the memorial cemetery, the Turkish Military Cemeteries and Memorials Department ( tr, Şehitlikler ve Anıtlar Şubesi) of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies is responsible.

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