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Events relating to the turks
A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil
from May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands
from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon
A British and Indian force is defeated by the Turks at Ctesiphon, on the bank of the Tigris
The British garrison at Kut, on the Tigris, surrenders to the Turks after a five-month siege
Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire
The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks
T.E. Lawrence and an Arab force surprise the Turkish garrison at Aqaba and win an overwhelming victory
The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders
from June - Faisal and T.E. Lawrence pin down a Turkish army in a campaign of guerrilla warfare
A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
Turkish troops invade and occupy northeast Cyprus, causing the island to be divided for decades to come
A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II
The Annan UN plan for the reunification of Cyprus is approved by the Turkish community but rejected by the Greeks
