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Events relating to turkey
British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
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
Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign
An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly
A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire
The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies
Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital
Ayatollah Khomeini, exiled by the shah from Iran, moves first to Turkey and then makes his base in Iraq
Recep Edogan begins a period of at least fourteen years as Turkey's prime minister, at first with success but by 2014 his administration is mired in corruption charges and is regarded as too authoritarian
Turkey passes a law giving the government the right to block websites and to force internet providers to hand over customers' details
An explosion in a Turkish coal mine at Zoma, followed by a fire deep underground, causes more than 300 deaths in Turkey's worst ever industrial disaster
