BRITISH RECORDS OF THE MOUDROS ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS AND EVALUATIONS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS

In this study, British records of the Moudros Armistice negotiations were given as the same (in English) and some evaluations were made on the mentioned records and armistice negotiations. The Moudros Armistice of which ended the war between Turkey and Allied Powers, was signed as a result of negotiations in Agamemnon, the British warship. Agamemnon talks were not recorded with a record signed by both sides, and the talks were recorded separately by the Turkish and British delegations. The original Turkish records of the talks in the Prime Ministry Ottoman Archive consisted of detailed notes held by the Turkish delegation’s clerk, Ali Turkgeldi. The British records of the Agamemnon talks were the notes taken by Captain Lynes, a British officer who served on the warship. These records, consisting of 62 pages, were kept in the British National Archive (The National Archives of United Kingdom/Public Record Office) among the documents of the Ministry of the Navy. Since most of the talks were held in French and the British officer did not know French, the British records did not cover all of the talks. Despite this, the recordings were one of the main sources of consideration in the context of the Moudros Armistice