Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I muri i te raupapa o ngā parekura o te Central Powers i Palestine i te mutunga o te tau 1917, i Beersheba, i Gaza
, i Mughar Ridge, me te ngaronga o nga waahanga nui o te tonga o Palestine i nga wa i muri mai o te Tuarima me te Tuarima o nga ope taua i hoki ki nga Maunga o Huria, i muri i te ngaronga o Hiruharama, he maha nga rangatira o te ope Tiamana me te Ottoman i te rohe i whakakapihia. I whakakapihia a General Erich von Falkenhayn e whakahau ana i te roopu ope a Yildirim e te General Otto Liman von Sanders me Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, te rangatira o te Eighth Army i whakakapihia e Djevad Pasha. I tohua e Cemal Pasha a Cemal Kucjuk Pasha hei rangatira mo te Ope Tuawha. Ko te kaihauturu o te Ope Taua Tuarima, a Mustafa Kemal i whakarere i tana whakahau i mua, i whakahoutia i te timatanga o Hepetema 1918.