Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Nur Bilge Criss -- Preface / Nur Bilge Criss -- Foreword / Nur Bilge Criss -- Acknowledgements / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter One Introduction / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Two A Survey of Istanbul During the Armistice / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Three The Domestic Political Situation / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Four The Allied Administration / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chaffer Five An Allied Dilemma / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Six Resistance and Underground Organizations in İstanbul (1918-1920): Cup Intelligence and Karakol / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Seven Resistance and Underground Organizations in İstanbul (1920-1923): M.M. Felâh, Auxiliary Groups / Nur Bilge Criss -- Chapter Eight Towards Evacuation / Nur Bilge Criss -- Conclusions / Nur Bilge Criss -- Epilogue / Nur Bilge Criss -- Bibliography / Nur Bilge Criss -- Index / Nur Bilge Criss -- Illustrations / Nur Bilge Criss.

This study covers the socio-political, intellectual and institutional dynamics of underground resistance to the Allied occupation in Istanbul. The city was clearly not the seat of treason against the Nationalist struggle for independence, nor was collaboration with the occupiers what it was made out to be in Republican historiography. Above and beyond the international conjuncture in post-WWI Europe, factors that helped the Turkish Nationalists to succeed were: inter-Allied rivalries in the Near East that carried over to Istanbul; the British, French and Italians as major occupation forces, failing to establish a balance of strenght among themselves in their haste to promote respective national interests; the victors underestimating the defeated as they were engrossed with bureaucracy and were assailed by the influx of Russian refugees, Bolshevik propaganda, and the Turkish left.

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