With what little I know of the campaign (mostly from reading Richard Massey

) I tend to feel that the fleet could have broken through if they had acted quicker and more decisively in the early days, and without too much forewarning. But it may be more based on admiration for the old dreadnoughts than sound analysis on my part. (Okay, it is based on that.)
So again - what could have gone differently? And would it have mattered?
Well, aside from the many great threads here at AH, I just found this interesting article wherein both England and Turkey reviews postwar what went wrong (worth a read just for that).
http://thegreatwar.theaustralian.com.au/could_we_have_won_at_gallipoli/
However, what stood out to me was this bit:
"Ekins says many of the assumptions on which the invasion was based could not have come to pass. He says the idea of opening a warm-water sea route to enable Britain to supply Russia, the struggling entente partner, with weapons and war materiel was absurd. Even if the landing had succeeded and the Allied fleet had broken through to Constantinople, Britain did not have enough cargo ships to carry supplies to Russia until 1917. Britain's war production did not reach its peak until 1917 and 1918, and in 1915 it was struggling to make enough munitions for its own troops on the Western Front. It certainly did not have enough to supply the hard-pressed Russians. In fact, the Asquith government fell because of shortages that left troops on the Western Front without enough artillery shells."
That was news to me (about the lack of cargo-ships and to some extent the bleak forecasts of being able to supply Russia). But what do the rest of you think? I don't want to derail the thread too much, but would it have mattered at all, if the Entente had had the most stunning success?
The article kind of overlooks Anaxagoras' point: "the easier flow of Russian grain to the world market would greatly assist the war finances of the Russian Empire and reduce inflation in Britain and France.", for example.
However, you'd still need the shipping to make good on this new supply line, and the Germans and Austrians could send more subs to try to choke off that new supply line like they did in the Atlantic and North Sea OTL. It's not as if you suddenly have a new shop open 24/7 with free food for the Entente ...