In 1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the Allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula to open the way to the Black Sea for the Allied navies. The plan was to capture Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire and an ally of Germany. They landed at Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Turkish defenders.
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There's something to brag about - the Ottomans, i.e. the last Caliphate, teamed up with the Germans. Whooo-hooo. Take those German advisors and equipment away and my guess is that those brave boys from Australia and New Zealand would have marched right on into Constantinople (it's proper name).
Unfortunately we ended WWI erroneously by not insisting on total defeat for the Germans, nor using it as an opportunity to help the Islamic world follow Attaturk's lead and secularize so that Islam could begin is final descent into the pages of a failed societal organizational style.
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