Armistice of Mudros

The Armistice of Mudros ended hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies. It was signed on 30 October 1918 by the Ottoman Minister of Marine Affairs Rauf Bey and the British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, aboard HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos, and it took effect at noon the next day. Its conditions required the Ottomans to surrender their remaining garrisons outside Anatolia, gave the Allies the right to occupy the forts controlling the Dardanelles and the Bosporus and any Ottoman territory where disorder threatened Allied security, demobilized the Ottoman army, air force and navy, and opened ports, railways and other strategic points to Allied use. In the Caucasus the Ottomans had to withdraw to the pre-war frontier with Russia. The armistice was followed by the occupation of Istanbul and the partition of the Ottoman Empire, and it was finally superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne, signed on 24 July 1923.