A century on, reconciliation and friendship replaced conflict at Gallipoli in Turkey – the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.<br /><br /> Marking the centenary of the ill-fated Allied campaign at the peninsula, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood alongside Britain’s Princes Charles and Harry on Friday to honour the dead.<br /><br /> In 1915 their countries were on opposite sides of the confrontation that claimed more than 130,000 lives. <br /><br /> At the British Memorial, a ceremony remembered Allied soldiers.<br /><br /> “These men had come from all parts of the British world – Africa, Australia, Canada, India, the mother country, New Zealand and remote islands in the sea,” Prince Charles said in a speech.<br /><br /> “They had said goodbye to home so they might offer their lives for the cause we stand for.”<br /><br /> At Gallipoli in 1915, Allied troops battled to defeat Turkish forces of the then Ottoman Empire. They foundered amid fierce Turkish resistance – at huge human cost on both sides.<br /><br /> At the m
