The Martyrs Monument, which commemorates the lives lost at Gallipoli in a fierce and bloody battle that effectively created the modern Turkish republic, has been an especially proud project for Philips and its next-generation lighting research and development teams. Once largely consigned to history, 'Martyrs' as it is known, has now been rejuvenated by an innovative lighting scheme that has seen the Gallipoli monument inundated with visitors who want to pay their respects to fallen heroes and remember the past. One of Turkey’s finest writers, Sunay Akin, created a poem especially for the newly-lit monument, which he says now looks like it has been dressed in a “costume of light, like a nightgown”.
