The occupation of Istanbul or occupation of Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended Ottoman participation in the First World War. The first French troops entered the city on 12 November 1918, followed by British troops the next day. The Italian troops landed in Galata on 7 February 1919.
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey marching in Beyoğlu, 8 February 1919
Greek aviators at the San Stefano airfield, after the Mudros armistice
The armored cruiser Averof of the Greek Navy in the Bosphorus, 1919
Constantinople, 23 May 1919: Protests against the Occupation of Smyrna by the Kingdom of Greece
The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 and took effect at noon the next day, the Armistice of Mudros ended hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I. It was signed by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos.
HMS Agamemnon on an earlier visit to Mudros during the Dardanelles campaign in 1915.
