UPDATED 4.11PM: Dawn has broken over Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula where more than 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders have gathered at Anzac Cove to remember the service of men 100 years before. 

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The Dawn Service has just got underway, with Prime Minister John Key has addressing the solemn crowd.

"On this beach, on this day, at this hour, exactly one hundred years ago, the first ANZAC troops came ashore."

"Instead of the open spaces that had been described to them, they landed here with steep hills rising in front of this narrow beach. And in those hills, Ottoman Turkish soldiers were already positioned and ready to defend this land.".

"We New Zealanders rarely think of ourselves as anyone's enemy or as aggressors, but that's exactly how those soldiers would have seen the ANZAC and other Allied troops on April 24th, 1915." 

"We know that New Zealand soldiers would have been willing to lay down their lives to defend their country. So, of course, were the Ottoman Turks." 

"The campaign waged here ensured that the name of this place would be written into the histories of New Zealand, Australia, Britain, Turkey, and the many other countries that fought here, never to be erased." 

"To us, Gallipoli is also a byword for the best characteristics of Australians and New Zealanders, especially when they work side by side in the face of adversity."

In closing, Key did not say "Lest we Forget". 

"Usually at these commemorations by saying lest we forget, but today, witnessed by all of you who have gathered here out of respect and remembrance, I will not say 'Lest we forget'."

"Because after one hundred years, we can say, on this day, April the 25th 2015, we remember."

New Zealand Defence Force Chief, Lieutenant General Tim Keating has read the Ode of Remembrance.

The New Zealand, Australian and Turkish flags were raised over Anzac Cove, and the national anthem of each country sung.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the dawn service at that the ANZACs represented "Australians at our best"

"Most of us have never worn our country's uniform, we have not climbed the steep cliffs of Gallipoli," he said.

"But we are better for those who have."

"They were as good as they could be in their time, now let us be as good as we can in ours."

Prince Charles read the words of Lieutenant Ken Millar, of the 2nd Battalion, who wrote of the grief surviving Anzacs felt as they left their dead mates buried so far from home.

"We lived at Gallipoli with our dead alongside us. Owing to the lack of space our cemeteries were always under our eyes," the digger wrote.

Earlier, Australian didgeridoo player William Barton began what's known as "Spirit of Place".

A live soliloquy followed recounting the landing at Anzac Cove, and a Roll of Honour displaying the names and epitaphs of those Anzacs who died at Gallipoli.

After that, women from the New Zealand Defence Force performed a karanga, or a call to gathering.