Duatepe (Polatlı)

“There is no line of defense; there is a surface of defense. That surface is the whole homeland. Not an inch of the homeland may be abandoned until it is soaked with the blood of its citizens.” In the summer of 1921, on the banks of the Sakarya, these sentences changed the fate of an army. But what did it mean to defend not a line but an entire surface, a whole homeland? The answer must be sought on two hills rising from the middle of the steppe, west of Polatlı…