Following the end of the First World War, the defeat of the Ottoman Empire and the Moudros Armistice Agreement, Allied warships occupied the former capital, Istanbul, on 13 November 1918. Britain arrested 144 people, mostly leaders of the Committee for Unity and Progress (CUP), on charges of “massacring Armenians” and took them to the island of Malta for trial. The investigation was conducted by the … Okumaya devam et SO-CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE | LIES AND FACTS