The January-to-April timeline places Dardanelles planning inside simultaneous campaigns rather than isolating it as a naval experiment. Ottoman forces failed against the Suez Canal while fighting Russia in the Caucasus, and Russian armies were also engaged against Germany and Austria-Hungary around the Masurian Lakes, Carpathians, and Przemysl. The siege of Van and the deportation of Armenian intellectuals appear as part of the Armenian genocide, which also destabilized a multi-ethnic Ottoman military. This wider pressure explains both why the Allies saw an opportunity at the straits and why the timing of an attack mattered.
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Gallipoli inside the wider crisis of early 1915
The campaign unfolded alongside Ottoman defeat at Suez, Russian operations in the Caucasus and Carpathians, and the opening phase of the Armenian genocide.