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How Remembrance Day poppy pins came to be

In the UK and Canada many wear red poppies on their jackets and clothing to commemorate Remembrance Day. Why do members of the public do this an how did the tradition start?

Turkey

Ceremony in Turkey marks 100 years since Gallipoli August offensive

A ceremony attended by the Australian Governor General Peter Cosgrove has been held in Turkey to mark the 100th anniversary of the August offensive

Italy

"Moments of Life": memoirs of a WW1 Italian General

Turkey

Moving ceremonies to mark centenary of the Gallipoli campaign

Ceremonies mark the 100th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War One

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Gallipoli centenary

Turkey

Dawn service at Gallipoli to mark ANZAC centenary

Crowds of Australians and New Zealanders attend 100th anniversary event

World News

Friendship and reconciliation replace conflict at Gallipoli centenary

A century on, reconciliation and friendship replaced conflict at Gallipoli in Turkey – the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the First World

Turkey

'Turkey shares your pain', Erdogan tells Istanbul Armenians

The Armenian community in Istanbul commemorated the 1915 mass killings of their ancestors by Ottoman Turks at a religious memorial service, stressing reconciliation and avoiding the term "genocide".

World News

Turkey faces renewed pressure to recognise Armenian killings as genocide

The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago was genocide, according to Germany’s parliamentary speaker. Norbert Lammert

Turkey

Remembering Gallipoli: Britain's Prince Charles lays wreaths at memorial

World leaders have gathered at the World War I battle sites of the Gallipoli campaign to mark 100 years since the British-led invasion

Turkey

Ex-foes come together at Gallipoli for centenary of World War I battle

Commemorations are underway at Gallipoli in Turkey to mark the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. A student choir from

Turkey

Gallipoli still teaching us brutality of war

A poem in Turkish on a Gallipoli hillside tells the traveller to ‘behold a place where an age went down… Listen to the silence where a nation’s heart

Belgium

Grim centenary of first ever chemical weapons attack

It is the most solemn of centenaries….exactly 100 years since the first large-scale use of chemical weapons. Victims from World War One were

Cyprus

Remembering Gallipoli, the grinding WWI battle to take the Dardanelles

Soldiers’ descendants have come to commemorate the British allied forces in WWI landing in Gallipoli, Turkey, 100 years ago. The 25th April is known

Turkey

Turkish PM offers his 'deep respect' to Ottoman Armenians

The prime minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu has offered his deep respect to Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives during what he described as “the

Armenia

Armenia remembers the victims of 1915 [pictures]

Turkey

Turkey protests after Pope Francis cites Armenian 'genocide'

Turkey has summoned the Vatican’s ambassador in Ankara in protest after Pope Francis quoted the word ‘genocide’ in referring to the mass killings of

Cinema

'Testament of Youth': A different kind of war film

‘==Testament of Youth' tells the story of Vera Brittain==. who postponed her studies at Oxford University during World War I to serve as a volunteer

United Kingdom

British and German troops hold commemorative football match to mark 1914 Christmas truce

British and German troops have marked the anniversary of the World War One Christmas truce when 1914 soldiers are said to have stopped fighting and

World News

British and German troops hold commemorative football match to mark 1914 Christmas truce

British and German troops have marked the anniversary of the World War One Christmas truce when 1914 soldiers are said to have stopped fighting and