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Is It a Sarakamish Campaign?
Turkey's entry into the First World War was almost an accident. Germany had been persuaded that the Ottomans were a kind of secret weapon. The Germans believed they could pressure Britain, France and Russia through their large Muslim populations. It just feels like it could be a story that falls out of today's newspapers but Britain at that time, do you know how much wheat it was importing? 85% of its wheat was imported.