The Talat Göktepe Memorial (Turkish Director of Forestry's Statue) commemorates Talat Göktepe, Çanakkale Region Director of the Ministry of Forestry, who died in an heroic but unsuccessful attempt to extinguish a disastrous fire of 25 July 1994. Behind him are symbolic trees and he holds out his hand to try to stop the flames licking upwards.
Source: Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide for Gallipoli