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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)l letter from Calthorpe, intended only for the eyes of [[Rauf Bey]], the [[Grand Vizier]], and the [[Sultan]], in which he promised on behalf of the British government that only British and French troops would be used in the occupation of the Straits fortifications. A small number of Ottoman troops could be allowed to stay on in the occupied areas as a symbol of sovereignty.<ref>Yakn Tarihimiz, Vol. 2, p. 49.</ref>

===The Sultan's position===
According to [[Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet
|Sir Horace Rumbold]], the British ambassador to [[Constantinople]] (1920&ndash;1924), the [[Mehmed VI|Sultan]] never perceived the significance of the military and political events following the [[Armistice of Mudros]], failing to realise that the partitioning of the [[Ottoman Empire]] was a reflection of his captivity. For the Sultan, there was a group of real Turks who were loyal and working to save the Empire at any cost. Most probably based on their individual activities some of the [[Turkish revolutionaries]] fell i(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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