TURKEY-HISTORY-WWI-GALLIPOLI

Turkish Air Force aerobatic demonstration team, Turkish Stars, fly their Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighters during commemoration ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, on April 24, 2015, over the Turkish Canakkale Martyrs' Memorial (Mehmetcik Abidesi), on the Gallipoli peninsula. A century ago, Allied troops waded ashore on the Gallipoli peninsula at the start of an ill-fated land campaign to wrest the Dardanelles Strait from the Ottoman Empire. The disastrous World War I battle began on April 25, 1915, and pitted troops from countries including Australia, Britain, France and New Zealand against the Ottoman forces backed by Germany. AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)