İtilaf Kuvvetleri’nin Gelibolu Yarımadası’na Çıkarma Harekâtı (25 Nisan 1915)

Abstract

Having failed in penetrating the Canakkale Strait, the Entente Powers attempted to reach their target through Gelibolu with an joint amphibious operation followed by a land operation between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916. After the failure of the naval attack of 18th March 1915, for the future of the Dardanelles Campaign, on the 22nd March it was decided by the naval and military authorities to change the purely naval attack into a combined operation. The absence of the 29th Division was the determining factor in the decision to delay the military attack to the end of the April and repack all the trops at Alexandria. The disembarkation of the army commenced before sunrise on 25th, using six different beaches and by nightfall about 29.000 were landed. Australian and New Zealand Corps (ANZAC) North Gaba Tepe, the 29th division and one battalion Royal Marines at five different landings near Cape Helles, and 3.000 of the French Division with one battalion at Kum Kali. On five beaches, the troops was landed though vigorously opposed by a Turkish troops. On the sixth beach (Ariburnu), North of Gaba Tepe the Australian and New Zealand (ANZAC) corps, were strongly conter-attacked and subjected to a heavy fire of Turkish troops, the ANZAC troops could not advance across the peninsula. As a result the Allies failed to realize their dreams about Istanbul and therefore the defeat was inevitable in both the sea and land