... Also England was worried that Turkey would threaten our colonies such as India. Not just as a threat of them taking them over but it would show them that Britain could be defeated and that they could break away from our empire. There were many ways that Britain thought of knocking Turkey out of the war, however the one they used as one of their main aims was to invade Constantinople and destroy the two major ammunition factories. Therefore by doing this it would mean that as well as turkey being out of the war, it would mean that Germany's supplies would be affected. By attacking Turkey the Germans would have to relocate there fighting resources from the western and eastern fronts. We also wanted to cause a revolution, which could bring in more supportive government, which would join the side of the allies. The strategic value of turkey very ...

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