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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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| 1916 April 29 |
| | | The British garrison at Kut, on the Tigris, surrenders to the Turks after a five-month siege | |
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| 1916 June 5 |
| | | Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks | |
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| 1917 July 6 |
| | | T.E. Lawrence and an Arab force surprise the Turkish garrison at Aqaba and win an overwhelming victory | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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| 1918 |
| | | from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile | |
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