Bullets colliding in Gallipoli 1916
Bullets colliding in Gallipoli 1916
DUNYA NEWS (web desk) – The bullets collided in Gallipoli in 1916.
It’s been said that the chances of this collision happening were one in a billion.
Background
The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey), from 17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
The Entente powers, Britain, France and Russia, sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, by taking control of the Turkish straits.
This would expose the Ottoman capital at Constantinople to bombardment by Allied battleships and cut it off from the Asian part of the empire. With Turkey defeated, the Suez canal would be safe, and a year-round Allied supply route could be opened through the Black Sea to warm water ports in Russia.
The significance of the Gallipoli campaign is felt strongly in both Australia and New Zealand, despite their being only a portion of the Allied forces; the campaign is regarded in both nations as a "baptism of fire" and had been linked to their emergence as independent states.
Approximately 50,000 Australians served at Gallipoli and from 16,000 to 17,000 New Zealanders.
