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Büyük Taarruz Şehitliği

#1 of 133 places in Afyonkarahisar

Büyük Taarruz Martyrs' Cemetery is a cemetery built in memory of 275 officers and 2150 soldiers who were martyred during the Great Offensive, which was launched by the Turkish army against Greek forces during the Turkish War of Independence. The gravestones in the cemetery are symbolic. There are a total of 500 graves.

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