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Monday 15 August 2016

British battle fleet gathering in Turkish waters according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 10 January 1923

An item reported that except for two battleships the complete British Mediterranean fleet of battleships gathered in Turkish waters. Two battleships of the Atlantic Fleet were added to them.(1)

Note
1. At that moment was the Turkish War of Independence between 19 May 1919-11 October 1922 although there was an armistice still unfinished. Not earlier as on 24 July 1923 was with the Treaty of Lausanne peace. Their opponents of the Ottoman Sultanate were Armenia, Greece, England, Italy and France. The locations of the acts were was Anatolia, North Mesopotamia and Thrace.