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Gallipoli. The Gallipoli peninsula ( / ɡəˈlɪpəli, ɡæ -/; [1] Turkish: Gelibolu Yarımadası; Greek: Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, romanized : Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east.
Total: 255,268 (56,643 dead)[ 12][ 13] The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli ( Turkish: Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
Turkish Straits crisis. The location of the Bosphorus (red) and Dardanelles (yellow) straits. The Turkish Straits crisis was a Cold War -era territorial conflict between the Soviet Union and Turkey. Turkey had remained officially neutral throughout most of the Second World War. [a] After the war ended, Turkey was pressured by the Soviet ...
Turkey is the only country in the world to have operated tanks from practically every major player in World War II, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and France. [8] Little evidence of this past remains, save for the efforts of historians and writers to preserve and restore what would otherwise be lost. [2]
Turkey was the only neutral country to implement anti-Jewish laws during the war. [3] During the war, Turkey denaturalized 3,000 to 5,000 Jews living abroad. [2] Most of these were living in France, and by 1943, 93 percent of denaturalizations by Turkey targeted Jews. Denaturalization put Jews at high risk of being deported and murdered. [10]
The Dardanelles is 61 kilometres (38 mi) long and 1.2 to 6 kilometres (0.75 to 3.73 mi) wide. It has an average depth of 55 metres (180 ft) with a maximum depth of 103 metres (338 ft) at its narrowest point abreast the city of Çanakkale. The first fixed crossing across the Dardanelles opened in 2022 with the completion of the 1915 Çanakkale ...
Anzac Cove ( Turkish: Anzak Koyu) is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It became famous as the site of World War I landing of the ANZACs ( Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on 25 April 1915. The cove is 600 metres (2,000 ft) long, bounded by the headlands of Arıburnu to the north and Little Arıburnu, known as Hell Spit ...
Turkey remained neutral during most of World War II, [32] but was involved in the Korean War. Coups in 1960 and 1980 interrupted the transition to a multi-party system. [33] Turkey is an upper-middle-income and emerging country; its economy is the world's 18th-largest by nominal and 11th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP. It is a unitary presidential ...