Turkish Truce Talks Turn Deadly: Allies’ Armistice Offer Rejected

On October 10, 1922, the fragile peace process in the midst of the Greco-Turkish War took a dark and ominous turn. Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire’s former capital, was the backdrop for the tense standoff between Allied forces and Turkish nationalists. General Harington, the British commander-in-chief, had left for Mudania, a strategic location on the Dardanelles, earlier that day, with the hope of securing a favorable outcome in the Mudania parleys.