Conscript Haroutyun Melkonian was awarded the badge of “Brave soldier.” On March 12, during the implementation of observations, he found the enemy sniper and destroyed him.
Soldier Meloyan tells.

One of the famous battles of the First World War can be regarded as the Battle of Gallipoli, which is also known as the Dardanelles operation. The armed forces of the Entente had the goal – to establish control over the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. If they succeeded, the Allies could bring Turkey out of the war. The second goal was to deprive the Russians of the possibility to possess these same straits. However, Turkey, with the effective support of Germany, could resist and destroy the plans of the Allies.

We need to know the language of the enemy, to know his habits, mentality. Only then we can turn to any of its rebuff with his own language. Especially it is very necessary to the military. Now, in the era of the Internet, you can create contacts and pull a lot of information from there. Most of our students are able to read and write in these languages. So, everything is done to enrich the knowledge of our officers. I am sure that if necessary they can use it to “get to say” the enemy.

Persian known writer, father of the Iranian novel Seyed Mohammad Ali Dzhamalzadeh in 1915 by coincidence, was moving from Berlin to Baghdad through Turkey and became an eyewitness to the massacre of the Armenians. Impressed by these infernal scenes, he wrote his famous story “My personal reflection during the First World War.”