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IWM, Q 70378) 21. Slopes of Monash Valley. (AWM, G00942) 22. Infantrymen and Light Horsemen in a trench on Walkers Ridge, Gallipoli. (IWM, HU 53364) 23. British troops and their artillery guns being evacuated from Suvla Bay. (IWM, Q 13637) 24. Distant view from the battleship HMS Cornwallis of the evacuation of Suvla Bay. (IWM, Q 13679) 25. A bugler of the Corps Expeditionaire d’Orient. (IWM, Q 13419) 26. Liman von Sanders, Brigadier-General Esat Pasha and Colonel Fahrettin. (David Nicolle) 27.
The Ottoman Empire remained outside the ensuing July crisis and spiral towards war, and was not allied with either side. Although the Ottoman Empire had strong diplomatic ties with Great Britain and strong economic ties with France, it can be argued that the Ottoman government was pro-German in 1914. Moreover, within the Ottoman government, a number of notable CUP members could be called Germanophiles, including Enver and Talat, and the army itself was strongly based on the physical and intellectual model of the German military system.
It may be argued that the Ottoman Army in 1914 was smaller but more powerful than it had been before. At great cost, the Allies misunderstood this about the Ottomans. Strategic direction in Britain In 1894, France and Russia signed a secret military alliance as a result of their concerns about an aggressive Germany. Britain remained friendly with Germany until the Kaiser began to build up a large navy in the early 20th century, which drove the British into the arms of Continental powers that it had previously regarded as enemies.