No foolish escapade: the Irish at Gallipoli

AGAIN Dr Pat Walsh (Letters, April 5) ignores the facts in wishing to view British involvement in World War I against Turkey as part of an imperialist plot to dismember it.

Any cursory investigation into why Turkey entered the war never posits Britain as the instigator or willing facilitator of such an action.

Dr Walsh does not respond to the well-known facts that the pro-German faction within the Turkish government were the controlling party in the lead-up to the war.