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The Turkish War of Independence[note 3] (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns and a revolution waged by the Turkish National Movement, after the Ottoman Empire was occupied and partitioned following its defeat in World War I.
This chronology of the Turkish War of Independence (also known as Turkish war of liberation) is a timeline of events during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). The timeline also includes the background events starting with the end of the First World War. The events are classified according to the campaigns and parties involved.
The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; Turkish: Jön Türk Devrimi) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire.Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress, an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Constitution, recall the parliament, and schedule an election.
Turkish victory +150 killed, +3,000 prisoners 9 killed, 47 wounded 1 November 1920: Kanlıgeçit: France Turkish victory Unknown 1050 killed 7 November 1920: Alexandropol: Armenia Turkish victory Unknown Unknown 20 November 1920 Fadıl: France Turkish victory 25 killed, 40 wounded 500+ killed 9 January 1921: 1st İnönü: Greece Turkish victory
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers as an ally of the German Empire and subsequently lost the war. The goal was to win territory in the East to compensate for the loses in the West in previous years during the Italo-Turkish War and the Balkan Wars. In 1918 the leaders of the Young Turks took full ...
The Turkish National Movement (Turkish: Millî Hareket), also known as the Anatolian Movement (Turkish: Anadolu Hareketi), the Nationalist Movement (Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket), and the Kemalists (Turkish: Kemalîler, Kemalciler or Kemalistler), [5] [6] included political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries that resulted in the creation and shaping of the modern Republic ...
Revolts during the Turkish War of Independence. A number of revolts against the Turkish Revolutionaries broke out during the Turkish War of Independence. Mustafa Kemal, who was the leader of the nationalist government of Turkey during the war of independence was primarily concerned about subduing the internal revolts and establishing domestic ...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, [ a ] also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha[ b ] until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal[ c ] from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 [ 2 ] (c. 1881 [ d ] – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from ...