9th Infantry Division (Ottoman Empire)

Two thirds of the 19th Division were Syrians under Colonel Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Atatürk).{{sfn|McKay|2018|p=93}}{{Sfn|Tamari|Turjman|2011|p=13}}{{sfn|Erickson|2001|pp=76–77}} The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later. "Two thirds of the troops who made up his (colonel Mustafa Kemal) 19th Division that faced the first wave of the Allied invasion were Syrian Arabs, comprising the 72nd and 77th regiments of the Ottoman army", according to Bill Sellars, Australian writer and historian.{{Cite web|title=The forgotten Arabs of Gallipoli|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/01/200849135129326810.html|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=2020-05-09}}

:25th Infantry Regiment

:26th Infantry Regiment

:27th Infantry Regiment

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• {{cite book |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069751/ |title=The Story of Anzac from 4 May 1915, to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula |last=Bean |first=Charles |publisher=Australian War Memorial |year=1941 |orig-year=1921 |edition=11th |series=Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 |volume=II |location=Canberra |oclc=39157087|ref=none}}
• {{cite book |title=Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War |last=Erickson |first=Edward J. |authorlink=Edward J. Erickson |publisher=Greenwood |year=2001 |orig-year=2000 |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-31516-9 |title-link=Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War}}
• {{Cite book|last=McKay|first=Jim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi5dDwAAQBAJ&q=McKay+2018+ottoman+empire&pg=PA1|title=Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli|date=2018-05-24|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-981-13-0026-4|language=en}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Tamari|first1=Salim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgQlDQAAQBAJ&q=%5B%5BArabs%5D%5D+made+up+two+thirds+of+the+19th+Division+ottoman+empire&pg=PA13|title=Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past|last2=Turjman|first2=Ihsan Salih|date=2011-05-07|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25955-3|language=en}}

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