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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Occupation of Istanbul
|partof=[[Turkish War of Independence]]
|image=[[Image:USS Noma off Istanbul Turkey 1920.jpg|280px|]]
|caption=[[USS Noma (SP-131)]] off the [[Dolmabahçe Palace]] (1920)
|date= [[November 13]] [[1918]] – [[September 23]] [[1923]]
|place=Istanbul district [[occupied]] by [[Great Britain]], followed by the [[Triple Entente]]
(contracted; show full)

===Dissolution of the parliament, March 1920===
{{Seealso|Second Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire)}}
The Telegram House was occupied on [[March 14]]. On the night of [[March 15]] British troops began to occupy the key buildings and arrest Turkish nationalists. It was a very messy operation. The 10th division and military music school resisted the arrest. At least 10 students died under the gunfire of the British Indian army. The total death toll is unknown. On [[March 18]] the Ottoman parliament met
. The parliament and sent a protest to allies; "it was unacceptable to arrest five of its members" declared the parliament. This wasmarked the end of the Ottoman Political system. The British move on the parliament left the Sultan as sole controller of the Empire; without parliament the Sultan stood alone with the British. Beginning with [[March 18]], the Sultan become the puppet of the British foreign department, saying:, "There would be no one left to blame for what will be coming soon"; the Sultan revealed his own version of the declaration of dissolution on [[April 11]], after approximately 150 politicians were exiled to Malta.

(contracted; show full)* Nur Bilge CRISS, "Istanbul under Allied Occupation 1918–1923", 1999 Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN 9004112596 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9004112596&id=SpofCsEZ0lkC&pg=RA2-PR13&lpg=RA2-PR13&dq=%22mark+lambert+bristol%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=2znNNC0FGF8m5gYsbjsfj9g7Ido (limited preview)]

{{War of Turkish Independence}}

[[Category:Turkish War of Independence]]

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