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* Otto Liman von Sanders, German general who served as adviser and commander of Ottoman forces in World War I ; awarded the Pour le Mérite and the oak leaves simultaneously in January 1916 for his role in the Battle of Gallipoli.
As the extent of the Allied offensive became apparent, General Otto Liman von Sanders, the commander of the Ottoman forces in the Dardanelles, appointed his competent officer, Colonel Mustafa Kemal, the commander for the defence of Suvla and Sari Bair.
The original commander of the army was the German military advisor to the Ottoman Empire, General Otto Liman von Sanders.
Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders ( February 17, 1855 – August 22, 1929 ) was a German general who served as adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Enver proved ineffective as War Minister, and frequently over the next four years the Germans had to support the Ottoman government with generals such as Otto Liman von Sanders, Erich von Falkenhayn, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein.
During 1916 and 1917, the EEF, commanded by Sir Archibald Murray and later by Edmund Allenby, had pushed the Central Powers ' Yildirim Army Group commanded by Erich von Falkenhayn and later by Otto Liman von Sanders back from the Suez Canal and out of the Sinai and southern Palestine.
He was replaced by another German General, Otto Liman von Sanders, who had commanded the Ottoman defence during the Gallipoli Campaign.
The German commander, General Otto Liman von Sanders made no attempt to defend the beaches strongly.
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