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Gallipoli & the North Aegean's
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Gallipoli Peninsula
This slender finger of land (
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was İstanbul's first line of defence during the Ot-
toman Empire, and forces commanded by Winston Churchill and Mustafa Kemal (later
Atatürk) clashed here in WWI. Today, memorials and cemeteries mark the beaches and
ridges where 130,000 Allied and Turkish soldiers perished.
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