Why didn't the allied powers take Constantinople from the

they tried.

>>2381653

No they didn't. Sevres was a bad treaty and Constantinople got occupied but they weren't going to take away Constantinople in a legal sense.

>>2381565

What is Galipoli, Alex?

I suppose it isn't very pragmatic considering it was filled with Turks.

>>2381565
because the French and Brits lost over 2 million soldiers already and were sick of fighting.

>see Irish Independence as well..

Greeks can't fight work shit.

>>2381797
*worth shit

>what is Gallipoli
>what is the Greco-Turkish War

>>2381671
the french got btfo by the new republican army in the south

the british supported greeks got btfo in the west by attaturk

they tried no matter how half-heartedly it may look, the brits cant be arsed to send troops again after gallipoli and the end of ww1

i think one of the allies plan for constantinople is to make it an international zone or something

>>2381565
The French, British, and Italians occupied Constantinople after the Armistice of Mudros until the Treaty of Lusanne was signed in 1923. The Allies had some plan under the first, harsher peace established by the Treaty of Servres, to make it an international zone, but they had no will to fight a protracted war against Ataturk's forces.

>>2381789
At the conclusion of the Ottoman Empire's participation in the First World War, only half of the city's population was made up of Sunni Turks. The rest were Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Jews, and a fair amount of Western expatriates.

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>>2381565
Incompetent Greeks bungled their chance and the Entente really couldn't be bothered to waste more lives and resources fixing their fuck-ups.

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>>2382482
And now its a fully Turkish city
Deus vulters BTFO

>>2382492
So this is how Eternal Anglo looks like to the Germans?

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Come and get it

>>2382496
Don't get too uppity, Turk. The technology exists.

They held it for 5 years but had to give it back since the great powers were not interested enough and they pulled back from Turkey;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Constantinople