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Re: SEVRES treaty & WILSONIAN DELIMITATION's Actual Force
My point was: if the landings in Gallipoli were planned and managed better (succeeded), our fate would have been different.
When the landing option was being discussed, among main allies: France and GB, there was an option of landing in Cilicia, with more realistic and less ambitious target (capture of Bolis), rather with the aim of cutting the Levant front (Where the Allies were to have hard days in Jordan and Irak), from the capital Bolis.
The last aim of that operation were to join the Russian advance in Malatya.
That landing would have been much more easier to achieve, since the Turks had virtually no coastal defense, plus the territory was still partly Armenian populated.
Originally posted by bell-the-cat
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Are you serious here? 
The landings at Gallipolli were intended to knock Turkey out of WW1 by capturing Constantinople and forcing an Ottoman surrender, and the operation was planned as a result of cowardice and incompetance by the allied naval forces who, rather than forcing an attack on Constantinople directly by sea, chose to cower in their ports for the entire war after a few of their ships were sunk by mines in the Dardanelles.
Why would anyone want to attack Cilicia? It would be like attacking Moscow via Siberia, or Washington via Alaska. Or Austria via Salonica (that one is a real example of WW1 imcompetance but too complicated and obscure for the typical BBC propaganda to address).
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The landings at Gallipolli were intended to knock Turkey out of WW1 by capturing Constantinople and forcing an Ottoman surrender, and the operation was planned as a result of cowardice and incompetance by the allied naval forces who, rather than forcing an attack on Constantinople directly by sea, chose to cower in their ports for the entire war after a few of their ships were sunk by mines in the Dardanelles.
Why would anyone want to attack Cilicia? It would be like attacking Moscow via Siberia, or Washington via Alaska. Or Austria via Salonica (that one is a real example of WW1 imcompetance but too complicated and obscure for the typical BBC propaganda to address).
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When the landing option was being discussed, among main allies: France and GB, there was an option of landing in Cilicia, with more realistic and less ambitious target (capture of Bolis), rather with the aim of cutting the Levant front (Where the Allies were to have hard days in Jordan and Irak), from the capital Bolis.
The last aim of that operation were to join the Russian advance in Malatya.
That landing would have been much more easier to achieve, since the Turks had virtually no coastal defense, plus the territory was still partly Armenian populated.
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