The Chanak Crisis additionally alluded to as the Chanak Affair

History Channel Documentary The Chanak Crisis additionally alluded to as the Chanak Affair in September 1922, was the critical danger of military activity by Turkish troops against British and French powers positioned close Canakkale (Chanak). The Turkish powers had as of late cleared to overpowering triumph, catching Smyrna and steering Greece into the ocean.

The treatment of the circumstance by the British Government, prompted the occurrence turning out to be more awful as well as being one of the variables which prompted David Lloyd Georges ruin. The occurrence was likewise the first run through Canada had declared her discretionary autonomy from Great Britain.

The British Government met on the fifteenth September 1922, bantered about and chose that British troops positioned in Turkey ought to keep up their positions. The nonappearance of Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, prompted various pastors issuing a report which undermined Turkey with war in light of the fact that Turkey had abused the Treaty of Sevres.

Unwittingly, the British Ministers had created a serious political episode.

Coming back to London on the eighteenth September, Lord Curzon made it clear that this demonstration would anger the genius Turkish Prime Minister of France, Raymond Poincare. Instantly leaving for Paris keeping in mind the end goal to mollify the French, Curzon was unconscious that Poincare had requested the withdrawal of French Forces at Chanak. Achieving Paris on the twentieth September Curzon, taking after a few biting contentions with the French Government, consented to intervene with the new Turkish powers.

The episode had brought on serious alert in the Middle-East as well as in France and England. Both Britain and France were frightened at the likelihood of going to war once more.

The entire issue was not helped by the perspectives and position of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Not just did Lloyd George consider Mustafa Kemal an 'oriental floor covering merchant' however he had not counseled Commonwealth Prime Ministers on the issue of Turkish Nationalism.

In complete complexity to the episode of World War One, when the Greco-Turkish War broke out, Canada did not view itself as dynamic in the contention. The Prime Minister of Canada, Mackenzie King, demanded that Canada's Parliament ought to settle on Canada's game-plan. Luckily at this point, the emergency at Chanak had passed. All things considered, King made it clear that Canada would decide its own outer issues.

The disaster at Chanak had grave outcomes for British Politics and the Conservative Party. Lloyd George's carelessness brought about a meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club on the nineteenth of October in 1922, where a movement was passed pronouncing that the Tories ought to battle the following General Election as a free gathering.

This movement had extreme repercussions for Lloyd George as the Tories made up most of the 1918-1922 coalition government. Losing support from government and additionally Lord Curzon, Lloyd George surrendered taking after a Commons vote of 185 to 85 to end the coalition.