The Battle of Gallipoli (1915) How Ataturk and the Ottomans Hurled the Allies (Including Winston Churchill) Into the Sea
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The Battle of Constantinople
When Britain learned that Turkey had joined the Central Powers, they simply confiscated the ships. In fact, and I learned recently that Winston Churchill was behind that. The Germans said, oh, that's no problem; we've got a couple of extra ones. And so what they did was they sailed two ships of their own, which were being pursued by French and British ships. They sailed them to Constantinople and then they just handed them over to the Turkish navy.
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