polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 9:47am:
The ANZACS attacked Turkey because the British High Command wanted to have control of the Dardanelle Strait. When in control of the forts along the shore you can sail right up into Russia. The reason they wanted to do this is to create a second front with Russia to attack Germany from 2 sides. That's the reason for Galipoli. Not to invade and control Turkey itself.

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 10:07am:
To beat Germany. Considering Germany was stealing people countries it was in a way. Turkey was stealing peoples countries too.

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 10:13am:
Of course it was about maintaining empire. Turkey ran the middle east. They were trying to maintain theirs. Germany were trying to expand theirs. They are all as bad as one another.

polite_gandalf wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 10:22am:
I hate empires. It's the castle  for  rich, ambitious  greedy pigs who whip up young men into a frenzy to maintain their interests. I can understand them fighting Germany though. They weren't as bad as ISIS but if you aren't German then your crap.

The allies had every right to invade Turkey.

Turkey shelled Russian ports under the guise of a neutral flag, this caused the allies to declare war on the muslims who had broken their treaty in true islamic fashion.

Prior to turkey officially entering the first world war


August 1914 two German warships the Goeben and the Breslau were officially offered to (and accepted by) the Turks, both ships then flew the Turkish flag. They were given Turkish names. The ships were renamed Midilli and Yavûz Sultân Selîm, respectively. (the Goeben officially became the Yavuz Sultan Selim) After raising the Turkish flag they formally became a part of the Turkish navy.

On the 28-29th of September the German warships under the Turkish flag shelled Odessa, Sebastopol and Novorossiisk. The Russian ports and navigation incurred a serious damage.

On the 30th of October the ambassadors of Russia, Great Britain and France in Constantinopol handed a 12-hour ultimatum over to the Turkish government demanding to open the straights and stop naval raids. The ultimatum stayed unanswered – the next day Turkey entered the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

So there we have it muslims doing what muslims do best, slaughtering people under the guise of a neutral flag, breaking their truce as a supposed neutral country,

freediver wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 6:38pm:


I’ll bet he is, FD.

That’s just the sort of self-sacrificing, Freeeedom-loving people we Australians are. We allowed ourselves to be slaughtered in Gallipoli to divert critical resources away from the genocide of the Armenians.

Lest we forget, eh?

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 10:09am:


Were they?  Where?  You do realise that Turkey was the victim in WWI?  It was actively attacked first, by the British and French.  It was complicit with Germany's attack on Russia in the Black Sea but didn't actually take part itself.