They were carrying 270 tons of supplies in the SS Julnar, a river steamer, when they were attacked by Turkish machine guns and artillery. Lieutenant-Commmander Cowley's crew fought valiantly in ...
Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for almost the entire duration of WW1. From the 14th Century to the 20th Century, the Ottoman Empire, centred in modern-day Turkey ...
US President Joseph Biden tells it like it is and calls the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I “a genocide.” Biden made his ...
This was because he backed an infamous and disastrous campaign in the Turkish Dardanelles Strait that tends to be known as Gallipoli. While the fallout from this campaign led to Churchill’s ...