Gallipoli Penisula
June 7th 2012 Took the morning ferry to Gallipoli today, which is the penisula on the other side of the Dardanelles from where I'm staying. This was where one of the most important battles of WWI took place: where the Turks and Germans stopped the Allies from bringing down Turkey in 1915. It was a huge defeat for the Allies, who were led by a very young Winston Churchill. Think of it as the D-Day of WWI, bu
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