Publication of the book "Constantinople occupied 1918-1923".

"Constantinople occupée 1918-1923 Une histoire culturelle", CNRS Editions : 2025

At the end of the First World War, from 1918 onwards, Istanbul experienced five years of occupation by Allied forces: French, British and Italian. A garrison city, it was also a city of repression for the population undergoing the first foreign occupation in five centuries, but also a city of rediscovered freedom for minority groups. Constantinople then experienced one of its most prosperous periods from an intellectual and cultural point of view, in the midst of a tangle of political tensions...

Results of several scientific meetings supported by CERMOM and IFEA (Paris 2017 then Istanbul in 2019), this scientific research reveals for the first time in the French language the diversity and richness of the last years of war in the Ottoman capital : Combining social history, the history of the Ottoman press, and the cultural and artistic life of Turks, minorities and foreign players, this work constitutes a sum of the period 1918-1923, a turning point situated at the time of the fall of a multicultural empire. In Constantinople, Greeks, Armenians, White Russians, Allied troops and Ottoman Turks of all persuasions, Kemalists and supporters of the Sultan rubbed shoulders and faced each other. The great Babel of the Levant experienced its wild years.