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