Without the Turkish soldiers the Gallipoli
peninsula would not be a site of war, but just another simple island that is
near Turkey. Throughout Australia we focus on the events and views of the Anzac
soldiers, we believe in what they were doing was true. But yet we never look at
what the Turkish believed in or fought for. So, here’s an insight to the
Turkish point of view. (Sansal, 2013)
In 1912-1913, turkey was part of the war. But they left when their treasury emptied. In 1915 the Turkish ruler Enver Pasha saw a chance for the Turkish Empire to gain more land from the Russian Empire. Along with this was the fact that if France, The British and Russia won the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary they would deprive Turkey of even more land. So the Turkish decided that they would join the Germans in their campaign (Sansal, 2013).
Before the Turkish officially jointed the Germany side, they tried to buy two heavy weapon class Battleships from the British. This did not succeed however because the British intelligence had gathered knowledge about the jointing of sides, so they held onto the two payed ships and used then against Turkey during the Gallipoli saga (Sansal, 2013).
The loss of much money and two heavy weapon class Battleships enraged the Turkish. So that when they were attacked by the Allied forces they were more than happy to retaliate and fight for their country, exactly opposite to what Winston Churchill expected (Sansal, 2013).
The following quote is from the Diary of Adil Shahin, a Turkish veteran of Gallipoli (Sansal, 2013).
Before the Turkish officially jointed the Germany side, they tried to buy two heavy weapon class Battleships from the British. This did not succeed however because the British intelligence had gathered knowledge about the jointing of sides, so they held onto the two payed ships and used then against Turkey during the Gallipoli saga (Sansal, 2013).
The loss of much money and two heavy weapon class Battleships enraged the Turkish. So that when they were attacked by the Allied forces they were more than happy to retaliate and fight for their country, exactly opposite to what Winston Churchill expected (Sansal, 2013).
The following quote is from the Diary of Adil Shahin, a Turkish veteran of Gallipoli (Sansal, 2013).
Their duty was to come here and invade, ours was to defend.
From the diary of Adil Shahin, Turkish veteran of Gallipoli