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Germans to Defend Straits; General von Sanders Put in Command of Turks on Dardanelles
London, March 30.—A Constantinople dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company by way of Amsterdam says that an Imperial trade has been issued designating the Turkish forces in the Dardanelles as the Fifth Army under command of Gen. Liman Von Sanders, of the Prussian cavalry, who formerly was commander of the Turkish forces in Europe.
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Landing at Anzac Cove
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The Gallipoli campaign was an unsuccessful military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli Peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Allied powers, Britain, France and the Russian Empire, sought to make the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, capitulate by taking control of the Turkish straits. They intended to expose the Ottoman capital at Constantinople to bombardment by Allied warships and cut i...
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The Montreux Convention regarding the Regime of the Straits, often known simply as the Montreux Convention, is an international agreement governing the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits in Turkey. Signed on 20 July 1936 at the Montreux Palace in Switzerland, it went into effect on 9 November 1936, addressing the long running Straits Question over who should control the strategically vital link between the Black and Mediterranean seas.
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