British navy

At the most critical stage of the First World War, the British War Council planned to conquer Istanbul by passing through the Dardanelles. Despite the British Navy's heavy artillery attacks on the Ottoman bastions guarding the Gallipoli Strait for one month starting in February 1915, they could not reach their goal. The biggest attack was launched on March 18, 1915.

Ships were painted with zebra stripes in hopes of evading and deceiving the enemy during World War I. It was not entirely clear how effective the “dazzle” camouflage was, but a recent study seems to indicate that the zigzag-like patterns can be misleading and deceptive when the ship is moving.

Rescue teams form Italy, Germany, Great Britain and other European countries have managed to salvate close to 6,000 refugees in the Mediterranean over the weekend, as reported by DPA.

Among outstanding Armenian politicians and intellectuals, 235 of them were arrested in Istanbul on April 24, 1915; their fate is unknown. Armenian religious leaders sent a telegram to the U.S. president, ?Turks are slaughtering Armenians.? Thus the date April 24 is adopted as the alleged genocide date.