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Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 documentary film produced in 2007 and directed by Nesli Çölgeçen
Nesli Çölgeçen
Nesli Çölgeçen is a Turkish film director, and screen writer. He graduated from Mekteb-i Mülkiye in 1976. Since 1979 he is a film maker.- Director :*Kardeşim Benim *Züğürt Ağa *Selamsız Bandosu...

. The film depicts the memoires and the daily life of the three last veterans of the Turkish War of Independence
Turkish War of Independence
The Turkish War of Independence was a war of independence waged by Turkish nationalists against the Allies, after the country was partitioned by the Allies following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I...

, Ömer Küyük
Ömer Küyük
Ömer Küyük was one of the last Turkish veterans of the Turkish War of Independence .Called , he fought in the Independence War as a marksman private....

, Veysel Turan
Veysel Turan
Veysel Turan was one of the last Turkish veterans of the Turkish War of Independence .Taking his horse cart with from his village in Konya Province, he volunteerly joined Kuvayi Milliye under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal to fight against the Allies partitioning the Ottoman Empire after it was...

 and Yakup Satar
Yakup Satar
Yakup Satar was, at 110, believed to have been the last Turkish veteran of the First World War. He died at age 110....

.

The last witnesses of the war of independence (1919–1923) tell their memories. "Nişancı Er Ömer" (Marksman Private Ömer) from Çorum
Çorum
Çorum is a landlocked northern Anatolian city that is the capital of the Çorum Province of Turkey. Çorum is located inland in the central Black Sea Region of Turkey, and is approximately from Ankara and from Istanbul...

 pays first a visit to his commander, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey....

, at Anıtkabir
Anitkabir
Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey...

 in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

. He then travels to meet his comrades, "Sıhhiyeci Onbaşı Veysel" (Combat Medic Corporal Veysel) in Konya
Konya
Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

 and "Süvari Yakup" (Cavalryman Yakup) in Eskişehir
Eskisehir
Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

. At the time of the film shooting in 2006, Ömer Küyük was 106 years of age, Veysel Turan 105 and Yakup Satar 108. In the film, they remember the wartime and say farewell to each other.

Not long after the documentation, all three veterans died, Ömer Küyük on January 13, 2006, Veysel Turan on March 25, 2007 and Yakup Satar on April 2, 2008. No one of them was able to watch the premiere held on November 14, 2008 in Çorum, the hometown of Ömer Küyük.

The screenwriter and director of the documentary film, Nesli Çölgeçen, was not aware of another veteran of the independence war, retired Colonel Mustafa Şekip Birgöl
Mustafa Sekip Birgöl
Mustafa Şekip Birgöl , a retired Turkish colonel, was the last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence .-Biography:...

, who died as the last veteran on November 11, 2008 in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

at the age of 105.
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