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ERCIYES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF VETERINARY IN 25 ANNIVERSARY
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INDEPENDENCE MARCH

Fear not! For the crimson flag that proudly waves in these
dawns, shall never fade,
Before the last fiery hearth that is ablaze within my nation
burns out.
And that, is the star of my nation, and it will forever shine;
It is mine; and solely belongs to my nation.

Frown not, I beseech you, oh thou coy crescent,
But smile upon my heroic nation! Why the anger, why the
rage?
The blood we shed for you will not be worthy otherwise;
For freedom is the absolute right of my God-worshipping
nation.

I have been free since the beginning and forever will be so.
What madman shall put me in chains! I defy the very idea! What man would not die for this heavenly piece of land?
I’m like the roaring flood; powerful and independent, Martyrs would gush out if you just squeeze the soil! Martyrs!
I’ll tear apart mountains, exceed the heavens and still gush May God take all my loved ones and possessions from me
out! if he will,
But may he not deprive me of my one true homeland for
The lands of the of the West may be armored with walls of the world.
steel,
But I have borders guarded by the mighty chest of a believer. O Lord, the sole wish of my heart is that,
Recognize your innate strength! And think: how can this No infidel’s hand should touch the bosom of my temple.
fiery faith ever be killed, These adhans, the shahadah of which is the base of the
By that battered, single-toothed monster you call religion,
“civilization”? Shall sound loud over my eternal homeland.

My friend! Leave not my homeland to the hands of villainous Then my tombstone - if there is one - will a thousand times
men! touch its forehead on earth (like in salah) in ecstasy,
Render your chest as armor! Stop this disgraceful rush! O Lord, tears of blood flowing out of my every wound,
For soon shall be come the day of promised freedom... My corpse will gush out from the earth like a spirit,
Who knows? Perhaps tomorrow? Perhaps even sooner! And then, my head will perhaps rise and reach the heavens.

But think about the thousands beneath you that lie without So flap and wave like the dawning sky, oh glorious crescent,
even shrouds. So that our every last drop of blood may finally be worthy!
See not the soil you tread on as mere earth, Neither you nor my nation shall ever be extinguished!
You’re the noble son of a martyr, take shame, hurt not your For freedom is the absolute right of my ever-free flag;
ancestor! For freedom is the absolute right of my God-worshipping
Unhand not, even when you’re promised worlds, this nation!
paradise of a homeland. Mehmet Akif ERSOY

ERCIYES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF VETERINARY IN 25 ANNIVERSARY
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