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Benutzer:KureCewlik81/Occupation of Constantinople
{{Totally-disputed|date=May 2008}}
{{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)
{{Seealso|Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe}}
After the armistice, High Commissioner Admiral [[Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe]] was assigned as the military adviser to Istanbul. His first task was to arrest between 160 and 200 persons from the Government of [[Tevfik Pasha]] on January 1919 <ref>Public Record Office, Foreign Office 371/4172/13694</ref> Among this group, he send thirty to Malta ([[Malta exiles]]). 

====Establishing authority====
{{Further|[[Malta exiles]]}}

The British rounded up a number of members of the old establishment and interned them in Malta, awaiting their trial for alleged crimes during the WWI. Calthorpe included only Turkish members of the Government of Tevfik Pasha and the military/political personalities. He wanted to send a message that a [[military occupation]] was in effect and failure to comply would end with harsh punishment. His position was not shared with other partners. French Government's response on these presumed guilty people was "distinction to disadvantage of Muslim-Turks while Bulgarian, Austrian and German offenders were as yet neither arrested nor molested"<r(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]]

[[lv:Konstantinopoles okupācija]]
[[tr:İstanbul'un işgali]]