In November 1914, during the Battle of Cape Sarych, the Yavuz Sultan Selim - formerly the German SMS Goeben - boldly faced a superior Russian fleet amidst treacherous, mine-laden waters in a desperate ...

Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire ... to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Allied heavy artillery in action on top of a cliff at Helles, Gallipoli, WW1.

A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman ... WW1 was largely forgotten, and dismissed by the Soviets as an “imperialist” battle. Around 1.7 million soldiers fighting for the Russian Empire ...