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Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez!

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ55638305 ↗
Source-derived summary

Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez! (English: Martyrs do not die, the homeland can't be divided) is a Turkish language nationalist slogan, usually chanted in support of the Turkish military.

The slogan is invoked frequently at sports events; in February 2018 Galatasaray Soccer Club fans chanted the slogans during a ceremony honoring Turkish soldiers who died during the Turkish military operation in Afrin.

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“Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez!” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Şehitler, ölmez and vatan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Şehitler, ölmez and vatan.
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This entry incorporates text from “Şehitler ölmez vatan bölünmez!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.