While their fathers, brothers, husbands, and even sons have been combating on the frontlines for the nation’s battle, Turkish ladies who put their arms underneath the stone have been an essential a part of the victories gained. Sometimes they carried ammunition to the entrance, typically they tended to wounds behind the strains.
In each the Çanakkale epic and the War of Independence, their arms, labor, and assist have been at all times current.
During the times when mobilization was not solely on the frontlines, they carried the ready meals from all corners of Anatolia to the frontlines after days of journey. One of those meals was the “mobilization bread.”
In the battle years, whereas ladies within the area ready this particular bread with flour, yogurt, olive oil, sugar, and sourdough yeast collected by the group, they might tie the loaded donkeys and journey to Çanakkale inside 7 days. This bread, which supported the troopers, who fought within the battle, with its energy throughout the battle years, continues to be produced in Savaştepe district of Balıkesir. Fatma Erdil, who has been within the bakery business for 28 years, explains the story of this bread as follows:
“At that time, it was taken to Çanakkale for the war. When almost all the men in the village went to the front, a woman named Ayşe acted as the village head, which was equivalent to a muhtar. With the remaining women, they made this bread for their husbands and children who went to the front, filled the bags, tied them to the donkeys, and went to Çanakkale within 7 days. Since then, it has continued like this.”
The most essential two options of the mobilization bread are that it retains one full and doesn’t go stale for a very long time.
This particular bread, ready with flour, yogurt, olive oil, sugar, and tarhana yeast that the folks collected throughout the mobilization interval, was registered with a geographical indication final yr. Fatma Erdil, who emphasised that particularly the folks of the area have embraced the mobilization bread, mentioned that traditions are continued and that is the explanation why they stand.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
