Canakkale 18 Mart 1915. Hayat : حيات (Magazine). : Canakkale 18 Mart 1915. Hayat : حيات (Magazine)

Uncolored pictorial map of Gallipoli peninsula, Çanakkale and surroundings in the Marmara region, on the Dardanelles Strait. a gateway to the Gallipoli WWI battlefields, north of the narrow strait. Issued as centerfold in Hayat : حيات‎ an Ottoman Turkish language weekly magazine,  published in Ankara and Istanbul. Showing the Naval operations in the Dardaelles campaign on 18 March 1915 when the Allied Armada, British and French battleships and numerous of cruisers and destroyers tried to forced her way through the Dardanelles, threaten the Turkish capital, Constantinople (Istanbul). Of the battleships that sailed in the Dardanelles that morning, HMS Irresistible and Bouvet never returned. They had struck by the mines laid ten days ago by small Ottoman minelayer Nusret. Map covers Gulf of Saros = Saros Körfezi in the north and Yenişehir in south. Showing cities, light houses, some landmarks and naval and army bases. Relief shown pictorially.