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| 1914 November 5 |
| | Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1914 November 23 |
| | A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil | |
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| 1915 January |
| | Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea | |
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| 1915 March 18 |
| | British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them | |
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| 1915 April 25 |
| | British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli | |
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| 1915 May |
| | from May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands | |
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| 1915 |
| | from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon | |
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| 1915 November 22 |
| | A British and Indian force is defeated by the Turks at Ctesiphon, on the bank of the Tigris | |
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| 1915 December |
| | Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign | |
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| 1916 |
| | Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East | |
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