The objective was to gain control of the dardanelles strait , and then to press on and take constantinople .
行动目的是获得达达尼尔海峡的控制权，继而向君士坦丁堡施压并伺机夺取之。
Turkey forms a bridge between europe and asia , with the division between the two running from the black sea to the north down along the bosporus strait through the sea of marmara and the dardanelles strait to the aegean sea and the larger mediterranean sea to the south .
" Straits question , recurrent controversy in the19th-20th centuries over the passage of warships through the bosporus and dardanelles straits between the black sea and the aegean and mediterranean seas . "
" Europe : the sixth-largest continent , extending west from the dardanelles , black sea , and ural mountains . It is technically a vast peninsula of the eurasian land mass . "
It connects with the atlantic ocean through the strait of gibraltar ; with the black sea through the dardanelles , the sea of marmara , and the bosporus ; and with the red sea through the suez canal .
