Soru: Theme 3. Legendary story is it? Complete the title with the person's na ULI Seyit Ali was born in Balikesir in 1889. He joined the Ottoman army in 1909 and then he fought in the Balkan War in 1912. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he went to Çanakkale and began his duty as an artilleryman. The allied naval forces started an attack on 18th March, 1915 because they wanted to pass the Dardanelles (Çanakkale) Straits. Corporal Seyit Ali was in Fort Rumeli Mecidiye then. The enemy started bombarding the fort. Suddenly, Seyit Ali and his friends saw that the crane wasn't working at all. That was a big problem because they couldn't lift the cannonballs without it Each cannonball weighed nearly 275 kilos. It was impossible to raise them so they couldn't fire the cannon. Everybody was hopeless and didn't know what to do. Just then, Corporal Seyit Ali lifted a cannonball. His friends were looking at him, but they couldn't believe their eyes. Seyit Ali walked slowly and put it on the cannon. Next, he fired. The cannonball hit the enemy ship Ocean. He carried two more cannonballs and shot. The third one damaged Ocean badly. After a short while, it crashed one of the mines in the sea and sank. The moment was so critical that it changed the course of the war. While the enemy felt sure of winning a victory, they failed. Finally, all the world learned that Çanakkale is impassable. When the First World War ended in 1918, Seyit Ali returned to his village. He got the surname Çabuk in 1934. And in 1939, Seyit Ali Çabuk got very ill and died. Now he's one of the legendary figures in the Turkish history and the Turkish people never forget him.​