Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 24 ga Mayu, 1915, bayan da suka koyi game da "Babban Laifi", gwamnatocin Burtaniya, Faransa da Rasha sun ba da sanarwar hadin gwiwa suna zargin gwamnatin Ottoman da "laifin cin zarafin bil'adama", a karo na farko a tarihi da aka yi amfani da wannan kalmar. Birtaniya, Faransanci da Rasha sun kara da cewa da zarar an ci nasara a yakin za su gabatar da shugabannin Ottoman da ke da alhakin kisan kare dangi na Armeniya don aikata laifuka ga bil'adama. Koyaya tare da sojojin Anglo-Australia-New Zealand-Indian-Faransa da suka makale a Gallipoli da kuma wani kamfen na Anglo-Indian da ke ci gaba a hankali a kan Baghdad, shugabannin CUP ba su da barazanar barazanar Allied don kawo su gaban shari'a. A ranar 22-23 ga Nuwamba, 1915, Janar Sir Charles Townshend ya sha kaye a yakin Ctesiphon da Nureddin Pasha da Goltz Pasha suka yi, don haka ya kawo karshen ci gaban Burtaniya a Bagadaza. A ranar 3 ga Disamba, 1915, abin da ya rage daga sojojin Townshend an kewaye shi a Kut al-Amara
(sojojinsa sun mika wuya ga Halil Pasha watanni biyar bayan haka). A watan Janairun 1916, Gallipoli ya ƙare a nasarar Ottoman tare da janyewar sojojin Allied; wannan nasarar ta yi yawa don haɓaka darajar gwamnatin CUP. Bayan Gallipoli, Enver Pasha da alfahari ya sanar a cikin wani jawabi cewa an ceci daular yayin da aka wulakanta daular Biritaniya mai iko a cikin rashin nasara da ba a taɓa gani ba.