article_snippet.sent: Today, world leaders were joined by Princes Charles and Harry on the Royal Navy's flagship HMS Bulwark in Turkey's Dardanelles straits to mark the centenary of the catastrophic landings which claimed 140,000 lives during World War One.
article_snippet.sent: Gallipoli peninsula is in modern-day Turkey, but in 1915 Gallipoli peninsula was part of the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: A picture, dated November 1915, shows Lord Kitchener (pictured third from left) and Lord Kitchener generals in Gallipoli.
article_snippet.sent: At the start of the war, Lord Kitchener was appointed Secretary of State for War by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and proposed an invasion of Alexandretta on Turkey's Mediterranean coast but was eventually persuaded to support Churchill's plan for Gallipoli .
article_snippet.sent: Today, soldiers from both the Ottoman and Allied sides lie close together in separate cemeteries on the Gallipoli peninsula.
article_snippet.sent: Churchill put forward a proposal to send Churchill naval fleet through the needle of the Dardanelles, a 38-mile waterway that separated Europe and Asia in northwest Turkey. 
article_snippet.sent: the Allies later launched a major land invasion of Gallipoli .
article_snippet.sent: The Gallipoli landings came during a period of deadlock on the Western Front in 1915 when the British hoped to capture Constantinople in a bid to link up with Russia.
article_snippet.sent: After a failed naval attack in February 1915, the Allies tried to capture Constantinople via the Gallipoli Peninsula by land assault.
article_snippet.sent: On April 25, the world will commemorate 100 years since the Allied fleet sailed into the Gallipoli Peninsula and landed on the Turkish beaches (pictured)