Censorship Applications for Communication in the Southern Region Occupied by the British and French during the Years of National Struggle

Abstract

After WWI the war continued in the southern regions. Before the war was over Britain and France to invade the southern territories with the Sykes-Picot secret treaty. For this purpose, they gave the name of the region without the boundary definition of "Kilikya" and they planned an unlimited expansion. After the occupation, according to occupation forces, the relationship between the government and in other cities as well to excite the people were afraid of the reactions that can ocur against them. For this purpose, the Bristish and French occupation forces censored mail and telegraph traffic between the Antep, Adana, Maras and Urfa's outside wold. Thus, these cities almost lost contact with the outside world. However, no matter what the circumstance were, this contact had to provided for solvation of the homeland. Therefore, in addition to occupation forces, the Armenians who knew the correspondence points of the region had to be overcome. For this purpose, local people tried to overcome the censorship of the occupation forces with different routes or encrypted communications. In this article, the censorship applied by the British and French in the southern region during the national struggle was explained.

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