ULUSAL DİRENİŞİN VE UMUDUN ADI: MUSTAFA KEMAL PAŞA-ANKARA
NAME OF THE NATIONAL RESISTANCE AND HOPE: MUSTAFA KEMAL PASHA-ANKARA

Summary/Abstract: Ottoman Empire, participated in First World War thinking of winning and conquering lands, had a great disappointment with the Mondros Armistice signed at the end of the war. The invasions came along after the truce led the Anatolian people to live in pessimism and despair. The sultan's and the Istanbul Government's surrender policies against occupations triggered the Armenian and Greek gangs who cooperated with the Allied states and received all kinds of help from them. These gangs started massacres by attacking vulnerable Turkish villages in Çukurova, Eastern and Western Anatolian regions and especially in the Black Sea region. These events led Anatolian people to take some measures to defend themselves. Meanwhile, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who was appointed as the 9th Army Inspector in Samsun, in order to prevent the chaos in the Black Sea region, by the Istanbul Government, will be the name of the national resistance and hope to be heard in Anatolia. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who set out for the purpose of establishing national union and independence, laid the foundations of a completely independent Turkish State based on national sovereignty on 23 April 1920 in Ankara. Ankara, which was an almost forgotten city in the middle of Anatolia during the organization of the National War of Independence, embraced Mustafa Kemal Pasha and became the center of military and political action of this war. In this study, the difficulties encountered in the organization phase of the National War of Independence and Ankara's contribution to this war are studied mainly based on A.U. Tite. documents, including first and second hand sources and press records.

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