Franco-Turkish War: Difference between revisions

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|date=May [[1920]] - October [[1921]]

|place=[[CilicaCilicia]] and upper [[Mesopotamia]]

|casus=Sharing of [[Ottoman Empire]]

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French army had moved into the region, based on the secret [[Sykes-Picot Agreement]], after the [[Armistice of Mudros]] and was faced with the resistance of the Turkish population as of the first hour, with increasing intensity starting January [[1920]]. The conflicts officially ended with the [[Accord of Ankara]] signed between the representative of the French government and the Turkish Grand National Assembly on [[October 20]] [[1921]], which was finalized with [[Armistice of Mudanya]]. The French forces withdrew from the occupation zone in the first days of [[1922]], about ten months before the Armistice of Mudanya.

After World War I, French troops occupied the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] provinces of [[Adana Province|Adana]], [[Gaziantep Province|Antep]], [[Kahramanmaraş Province|Maraş]] and [[Şanlıurfa Province|Urfa]] in southern [[Anatolia]]. Separately, France also embarked troops to the [[coal mining]] ports of [[Zonguldak]] and [[Karadeniz Ereğli]] in the [[Black Sea]], of strategic importance in military terms and also involving important stakes for French capital. The city of [[Bursa]], a former Ottoman capital of central importance in northwest Anatolia was held by French forces as well, for a brief period before the great summer offensive of the [[Greek army]] in 19211920, at which time that city fell to the [[Greek people|Greeks]]. At the eastern tip of the occupation zone in the south, the city of [[Mardin]] was also occupied for one day (on [[21 November]] [[1919]]) until the evening when the French thought it better to abandon the occupation attempt.

The governors assigned by France to the French occupation zone in the south were, from [[Jan 1]] 1919 to [[Sep 4]] 1920, [[Édouard Brémond]], and from September 1920 to 23 December 1921, [[Julien Dufieux]].