Title: MOSUL QUESTION (1918-1926)
Author: ALEV DİLEK AYDIN
Place of publication: ANKARA
Publisher: THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BİLKENT UNIVERSITY
Release date:June 2004

When Mosul was occupied by British forces ten days after the Mudros Armistice was signed on November 30, 1918, the Mosul Question was bequeathed by the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. Because the Turkish army was busy with the National War of Liberation in Anatolia, the people of Mosul were expected to get rid of British occupation by their own efforts. After winning the war, Turkey
had the choice of solving the problem either through force or diplomacy. They chose the latter, considered more in keeping with Turkish Foreign Policy. The purpose of this research is to analyze the decision not to use force by taking into consideration the internal and external imperatives of that time.[1]