By the spring of 1915, combat on the Western Front had sunk into stalemate. Enemy troops stared at each other from a line of opposing trenches that stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border.
Neither opponent could outflank its enemy resulting in costly and unproductive direct attacks on well-fortified defenses. The war of movement that both sides had predicted at the beginning of the conflict had devolved into deadly stagnation. Allied leaders, including Winston Churchill and Lord Kitchener, scoured their maps to find a way around the impasse. The Dardenelles Strait leading from the Mediterranean to Istanbul caught their eye. A successful attack in this area could open a sea lane to the Russians through the Black Sea, provide a base for attacking the Central Powers through what Churchill described as the "soft underbelly of Europe", and divert enemy attention from the Western Front. The Campaign was a fiasco, poorly planned and badly executed. It began in February 1915 with an unsuccessful naval attempt to force a passage up the Dardenelles. The flotilla retreated after sustaining heavy damage from Turkish guns lining both shores and from mines strewn across the channel. In April, a landing on the Gallipoli Penninsula attempted to secure the shores and silence the Turkish guns. Trouble brewed from the beginning. Amphibious operations were a new and unperfected form of warfare leading to poor communications, troop deployment and supply. The Turks entrenched themselves on the high ground pouring artillery and machine gun fire down upon the hapless Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French and British troops below. The battleground soon resembled that of the Western Front - both sides peering at each other from fortified trenches, forced to spill their precious blood in futile frontal attacks on well defended positions. The stalemate continued through the fall of 1915 until British forces withdrew at the end of the year. Casualties were high - approximately 252,000 or 52% for the British/French while the Ottoman Turks suffered about 300,000 casualties or a rate of 60%. The failed campaign gained little and badly tarnished both Churchill's and Kitchener's reputations
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The Battle at gallipoli 1915
The Battle at gallipoli 1915 
The Battle at Gallipoli 1915By the spring of 1915, combat on the Western Front had sunk into stalemate. Enemy troops stared at each other from a line of opposing trenches that stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border.
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Highlights of Gallipoli 
Gallipoli PeninsulaGallipoli peninsula is the most frequently used name for the peninsula to the west of the Dardenelles Straits, and the fighting that took place there between British and French troops of the Allies against Turkish troops .
Read More...The Nek At Gallipoli
The Nek At Gallipoli The Nek at Gallipoli TurkeyThe Anzac attack of seventh August was to follow a predawn cross fire. The element of surprise was lost when the cross fires ended seven minutes early.
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Lone Pine At Gallipoli 
Lone Pine GallipoliLone Pine is One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli peninsula, the Battle of Lone Pine was intended as a diversion from attempts by the New Zealand and Australian corps to force a breakout from the ANZAC perimeter on the heights of Chanuk Bair
Read More...Ari Burnu Cemetery At Gallipoli
Ari Burnu Cemetery At Gallipoli 
Ariburnu Cemetery GallipoliAri burnu cemetery is called because of the hills top look like the nose of the bee.That is a part also you need to visit when you are visiting gallipoli.
Read More...Anzac Cove Gallipoli
Anzac Cove Gallipoli 
Anzac Cove GallipoliAnzac cove is a part of the peninsule where the turkish troops get attacked by Anzac Soldiers..
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Helen of Troy Turkey 
Helen of TroyTroy is the oldest history in the world.People who are travelling they have a chance to see the oldest ruins of Troy.
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Kolin Hotel Canakkale 
Kolin Hotel CanakkaleThe main principle of this hotel is customer satisfaction. It also have a 1850 people capacity Megaron Convention Center with full internet connection. The convention center has 14 meeting rooms with no columns and boardroom simultaneous structure, and other kinds of technical equipment and it is perfect for seminars, conventions, trainings, launches and medical courses
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Restaurants in Canakkale 
Canakkale RestaurantsIn canakkale there are lots of restaurants by the sea side some of them are listed below. Having a nice dinner while watching dardanell if realy big joy. Once you go to canakkale you should try fish of dardanell.
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