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Dardanelles Campaign had been the preeminent war of the machine gun century
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Therefore, 2000 and more wounded soldiers on a day were able to come to Division
Medical Companies on the critic days of this bloody war. For instance, head, chest and
abdomen wounds and injuries were had been leaving to death. In those years, for there
had no blood transfusion, it was had been shooting up the serum saline intramuscularly
in order to shut out shock of wounded. Briefly to say, it has indicated changing “the
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Arms Fair” by those which were used and produced the cutting-edge technology of that
century in that war. It had been demonstrated those arms to the clients at the front line
what to be of service to humankind how to make them killed, how many persons to
make killed in a minute.
Dardanelles War was a destruction war, spoiling attack for two sides. After this war,
the concept of total defense (Der Total Krieg) came out. Dardanelles War and subse-
quent wars had been the destruction wars of Nations.
As for the Turkish Joint operations the first recorded instant of the employment of
countermeasures of Electronic Warfare(EW) to render useless aerial reconnaissance. In
fact, it might be called that the implementation of the Electronic Warfare was the first in
this war. The electronic security measure (ESM), the electronic counter measure (ECM)
and electronic reconnaissance measure were having been applied in this campaign. But
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in the Dardanelles War, initiators the EW had been Turks. On March 5 , it had been
given the mission of lob shot which its shooting was conducted by one spotting aircraft
to Queen Elizabeth which was escorted by two torpedo-boats towards Turkish artil-
lery batteries in Kilitbahir. The lob shot bombardment started. Just then, Yıldız wireless
telegraph radio station in which was deployed skulkingly in Yıldıztepe in the access
of Kilitbahir comprehended the picture. It accessed their communication link and car-
ried out the jamming against Queen Elizabeth and her observation plane. Consequently,
bombardment got failed. This occurrence was the first EW that it had ever seen in Dar-
danelles War.
Submarines were used in a widespread manner in this war; as a consequence, Tactical
Air Support to Marine Operation (TASMO) was tried for the first time both sides.

3. General situation and towards great war
The Ottoman State was over six hundred years old and was on its last legs. At the
height of its power in 1683, the Ottomans, aided by its feared infantry units known as
the Janissaries, controlled the entire North African coast, all of Europe east of the Dan-
ube, the Crimea and much of the Middle East. The next two centuries saw a long slow
and terminal decline as nationalism rose in the Balkan Peninsula and new nations were
created. The other great empires slowly bit away at the rest of its possessions. The Ot-
toman treasury went bankrupt in 1875, at first, the consolidation was proclaimed and
then moratorium subsequently it was organized “Ottoman Public Debt Administration”
in 1877. Tsar Nicholas I, called Turkey “the Sick Man of Europe” in the meaning of

2 Gnkur. ATASE Başkanlığı Türk Silahlı Kuvvetler Tarihi; Osmanlı Devri, Birinci Dünya Harbi’nde Türk
Harbi, V.Cilt, 3. Kitap, Çanakkale Cephesi Harekâtı, Ankara, 1997, pp. 525-526.
3 Gnkur. ATASE Arşivi; Ankara, K.1129, D. 27, F.2.