Turkey Gallipoli French Soldiers

French army officers prepare the remains of 17 missing French soldiers who fought in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli, in Canakkale, Turkey, Sunday, April 24, 2022. The remains were on Sunday handed over to French military officials and put to rest alongside other fallen comrades, more than a hundred years after their deaths. The remains were found during restoration work on a castle and surrounding areas on Turkey’s northwestern Canakkale peninsula, where Allied forces fought against Ottoman Turks in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign that started with landings on the peninsula on April 25, 1915.