"Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır."

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Heads of governmentAnti-communistsCritics of religionHeads of stateFounding Fathers
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Variant: Hattı müdafaa yoktur, sathı müdafaa vardır. O satıh bütün vatandır. Vatanın her karış toprağı, vatandaşın kanıyla ıslanmadıkça terk olunamaz… — Variant translation: There is no defense line, but a defense territory, and that territory is the whole of the motherland. Not even an inch of the motherland may be abandoned without being soaked in the blood of her citizens... — English translation, as quoted in History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (1976) by Stanford Jay Shaw