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that have come up to the present.
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The Great War created myth in other ways.
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Another one came from the landing in Gallipoli.
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Gallipoli was a Turkish
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peninsula south of Istanbul, constantinople then.
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It's about a four-hour taxi drive in lousy traffic.
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It probably took longer then.
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The idea of the Allies was to knock Turkey out of the war,
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help Russia
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and possibly encircle Germany
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by not attacking directly through the western front,
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but coming around through Asia Minor.