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{{Armenian Genocide}}
'''Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920''' were [[courts-martial]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after the [[armistice of Mudros]] during the  [[Aftermath of World War I|aftermath]] the [[World War One]], which the leadership of the [[Committee of Union and Progress]] and selected former officials were court-martialled with/including the charges of [[Subversion (politics)|subversion]] of the constitution, wartime [[profiteering]], and the massacres of both [[Po(contracted; show full)

===Military administration, November 1918===
{{Further|[[Armistice of Mudros]], [[Occupation of Istanbul]], and [[Malta exiles]]}}
The Allies did not wait for a peace treaty after the [[Armistice of Mudros]] for claiming the Ottoman territory. Just 13 days after the [[Armistice of Mudros]], a French brigade entered İstanbul on [[November 12]], [[1918]]. The first British Troops entered the city on [[November 13]] [[1918]]. Early in 
[[December]] [[  1918]], Allied troops occupied sections of Istanbul and set up an Allied military administration. 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]]). 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"<ref>Public Record Office, Foreign Office, 371/4172/28138</ref>. However, government and Sultan got the message. On [[February]] [[  1919]], allies was informed that Ottoman Empire was in compliance with its full apparatus to the occupation forces. Any source of conflict (including Armenian questions) would be investigated by a commission which neutral Governments can attach two legal superintendents<ref>Public Record Office, Foreign Office, 371/4172/28138</ref>.  Calthorpe's correspondence to the [[British Foreign Office]] was "The action undertaken for the arrests was very satisfactory, and has, I think, intimidated the(contracted; show full)rom September 27 to the end of October 1919, the issue of retribution against those responsible was on the agenda. A task force, led by [[Shahan Natalie]], working with [[Grigor Merjanov]], was established to assassinate [[Talaat Pasha]], [[Pipit Jivanshir Khan]], [[Said Halim Pasha]], [[Behaeddin Shakir|Behaeddin Shakir Bey]], [[Jemal Azmi]], [[Cemal Pasha]], [[Enver Pasha]], as well as several Armenian traitors.

==See also==
*[[Armenian Genocide]]

==References==
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[[Category:Ottoman Empire]]