Anzac Day - The Australian New Zealand Consciousness

For the Ottomans, Gallipoli was a victory. And when we see the generosity the Turks show to their defeated friends, the Australians and New Zealanders, the British, that is the generosity of the victor. But politically, it's catastrophic for the Allied war effort. It confirmed Germany's decision to ally with the Ottoman Empire to bring them in onto a war. The Indian army headed by British commanders in their hundreds of thousands being deployed in Mesopotamia as another way to try and weaken and defeat the Ottoman from another vulnerable front. Next episode, the Armenian genocide begins in earnest.