“The fates of many peoples were determined in this strait, on this soil, but none more so than our fate as an empire collapsed,” Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a crowd of officials, soldiers and veterans from later Turkish conflicts as winds whipped the tip of the peninsula. Turks mark what they call the Canakkale war on March 18, when Ottoman forces repelled an Allied assault on the Dardanelles - the sole maritime outlet for arch foe Russia - sinking a French battleship and destroying British warships. The area has long drawn visitors from Australia and New Zealand, whose ANZAC forces fought here under their own flags for the first time, and who honor their nations’ fallen in graveyards halfway around the world every April 25. Record numbers of Turks have flocked to these headlands in recent years to pay homage to the defense of the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign of World War One.
And having it as a super ship would give them some kind of excuse of not doing it. Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of Battle of Canakkale, as part of the Gallipoli campaign, in Gallipoli March 18, 2015. I'm a bit reliefed that it isn't a 4x4 super Alsace, because i hope WG will replace the Republique with her, as the Repu in the current state makes less sense as a continuation of the line as the Khaba, GK or Moskva did in their tree.
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