The Ottoman Army was in a sorry state by the summer of 1915… They had been taking repeated losses trying to hold the line against the Russians in the northeast of Anatolia. At the same time, Arab Rebels, led by the fearless leader Faisal I, had plunged the Levant and the surrounding regions into utter chaos.
Yet, Bulgaria, by sheer accident, had found itself entering the war, and the Allies quickly accepted them into their ranks. The hope was preventing the Central Powers from marching into Constantinople, via creating a front on Bulgaria's western border with Greece.
This hope was quickly dashed before an army could even be properly raised. Eastern Thrace, where Constantinople lie, was the most fortified region of the Ottoman Empire. Nobody expected the Central Powers to threaten it so swiftly.
