CANAKKALE, Turkey (AP) — Travelers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other nations’ dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn service at dawn Monday ...

Military personnel attend a ceremony to commemorate soldiers who died during the World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, in Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, April 24, 2021, on the 106th ...

The Ottoman victory at the Battle of Canakkale in 1915 – arguably one of the biggest turning points in Turkish history – is being commemorated this week across the country. The death and suffering at ...

Battlefield tours may not be back for a few more weeks, but just imagine what the Turks will be able to enjoy at Gallipoli. They can wander through the 105-year-old killing fields along the ...

11:31, Sun, Apr 19, 2015 Updated: 13:56, Fri, Apr 24, 2015 If any battle validated Wilfrid Owen's poetical damnation of the First World War as pity piled upon futility, it was Gallipoli. In a sideshow ...

22:48, Wed, Apr 22, 2015 Updated: 19:05, Fri, Apr 24, 2015 That bloody eight and a half months campaign against the Ottoman Empire was as a disaster for the Allied Forces. It's a battle rarely taught ...

The Gallipoli Peninsula, forming the western edge of the Çanakkale Strait (the Dardanelles), is where history whispers through the crisp fall air and the crunch of gravel underfoot. As you walk ...

The win for the "yes" side in Turkey's recent referendum on the powers of the president has fundamental implications for parliamentary democracy in the country, and for relations between Turkey and ...

GALLIPOLI, Turkey – As dawn broke, families of soldiers, leaders and visitors gathered near former battlefields, honoring thousands of Australians and New Zealanders who fought in the World War I ...

Like so many military catastrophes, the amphibious assault on the Ottoman Turks at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 by an Anglo-French force began with the best of intentions and a hefty dose of wishful ...