British control of the Straits Zone

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Allied occupation military occupation post–World War I political arrangement

British control of the Straits Zone was the post-World War I British military and administrative occupation of the strategic Turkish Straits area, aimed at securing naval access between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and enforcing Allied terms on the defeated Ottoman Empire.

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Label	Occurrences
British control of the Straits Zone canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Allied occupation ⓘ military occupation ⓘ post–World War I political arrangement ⓘ
aim	control maritime traffic through the Turkish Straits ⓘ demilitarize the Straits Zone ⓘ enforce Allied terms on the defeated Ottoman Empire ⓘ secure Allied naval access between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea ⓘ
appliesTo	Bosporus NERFINISHED ⓘ Dardanelles NERFINISHED ⓘ Sea of Marmara NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	Turkish War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
endTime	1923 ⓘ
followedBy	Convention on the Regime of the Straits NERFINISHED ⓘ international regime of the Turkish Straits ⓘ
follows	Armistice of Mudros NERFINISHED ⓘ World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ
governingBody	Allied occupation administration NERFINISHED ⓘ British military authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalPeriod	interwar period ⓘ
legalBasis	Armistice of Mudros NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of Sèvres NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Gallipoli Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ Çanakkale NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedBy	Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish National Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
participant	France NERFINISHED ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Allied occupation of Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ post–World War I partition plans for the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
relatedTo	Eastern Question NERFINISHED ⓘ Straits Question NERFINISHED ⓘ
replacedBy	Straits Convention (Lausanne, 1923) NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ
result	restriction of Ottoman sovereignty over the Straits ⓘ temporary internationalization of the Turkish Straits ⓘ
significantEvent	Allied control of the Dardanelles forts ⓘ demilitarization of the Straits Zone ⓘ occupation of Istanbul ⓘ
startTime	1918 ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of access to the Black Sea ⓘ protection of British imperial sea routes to the Near East and India ⓘ

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Allied occupation of the Ottoman Empire → hasPart → British control of the Straits Zone ⓘ