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Italian soldiers drilling in front of the Dolmabahçe Palace

However, the air in the capital in the first few days after the Armistice

was signed was very different. The Ottoman Parliament unanimously ratified
the Armistice. The Ottoman Postal Office printed stamps for the Armistice,

as if celebrating good news. Only ten days after the optimistic statements of
the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey, on November 13, 1918,

the 55-unit enemy fleet passed through the Dardanelles Strait and anchored
in Dolmabahce. This huge fleet consisted of 22 British, 17 Italian, 12 French

and 4 Greek warships.

This occupation represented the pinnacle of the centuries-old British
deep state plans to disintegrate the Ottoman Empire and remove the Turks

from Europe. The capital was occupied, the army was dissolved, and com-
mercial vessels, shipyards, ports, railways and communication channels were

made available for the sole use of the occupation forces. This entire plan was
carried out with a legal pretense and was supported by military force. Fur-

thermore, black propaganda was used widely to stem any potential public sup-
port for the Ottoman administration.

The anti-Ottoman sentiment that was propagated in Europe and the
United States for years through newspapers, novels and theatrical plays were
all intended to make this occupation easier. Hundreds of books, pamphlets

and brochures printed with caricatures depicting Turks as savage people

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