The monument stands on a hill at the Gediz junction, built by the Kütahya governorate and the special provincial administration with the support of the Ministry, and opened on 30 August 2010.
What it commemorates happened elsewhere, on 30 August 1922 near the Porsuk bridge at the tenth kilometre of the Kütahya-Afyonkarahisar road: Captain Hamdi, a doctor taking medicine to the cavalry division at Kütahya, and 158 soldiers with him were killed there by the Greek 53rd regiment.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached by road; Kütahya to Gediz is ninety-four kilometres.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kütahya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.5 °C in January to 20.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (76 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
