The World War I battle for control of the Dardanelles(Hellespont) strait was fought mainly on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula (map), with appalling casualties. Around 100,000 were killed and 400,000 wounded during the nine-month campaign (1915-1916) between the Ottoman Empireand the Allied powers (British Empire and France). Today, the Gallipoli battlefields are silent, preserved as a national historic park strewn with marble and bronze … Continue reading Gallipoli Battlefields, Turkey