Turkish Firefighters Defend Gallipoli Battlefield Site From Flames

Firefighters in western Turkey have been battling to prevent a wildfire from reaching memorials and graves at the site of the World War I battle of Gallipoli, on the western side of the Bosphorus south of Istanbul. Dry, hot, and windy weather conditions have caused multiple wildfires to break out in western Turkey, as well as across the Aegean Sea in Greece earlier this week. Images in local media showed gravestones covered in soot in a scorched field overlooking the Aegean Sea. The flames reached Canterbury cemetery, where thousands of soldiers from New Zealand are interred. Between April 1915 and January 1916, an Allied force tried and failed to break out of a beachhead at Gallipoli and break through the Turkish frontlines....