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- 01-Landing at Samsun
- 04-Travel to Sivas
- 05-We arrived at Erzerum
- 08-The Congress met at Erzerum on the 23 rd July, 1919
- 11-Arrived at Sivas on the 2 nd September
- 13-The Congress was opened on Thursday, the 4 th September
- 14-I will mention the most important resolutions
- 15-This motion relates to American mandate
- 16-Italy and England have offered a mandate
- 17-The religious class has already pursued this idea
- 18-Allow Turkey her freedom so that she would suffocate
- 19-Our reasons for thinking against the mandate
- 20-Europe especially Great Britain wants raise the Armenian Question
- 21-Ideas concerning the mandate and independence
- 22-The Americans who are now in Constantinople say
- 23-A public meeting was held in which the inhabitants of Sivas took part
- 24-I continually received intelligence while the Congress
- 25-Ali Galib’s case
- 26-Our first object was to lay these facts before the Padishah
- 27-The 12 th September, the moment when the rupture between Anatolia and Stambul took place
- 28-I had been condemned to death by the Padishah and the Government
- 29-We received threatening and intimidating telegrams
- 30-A Commission, under the leadership of General Harbord
- 31-To come to an understanding with the leaders of the national movement
- 32-The late Abdul Kerim Pasha
- 33-The Sovereign has been deceived
- 34-About the rumours that the national movement is in reality a Bolshevik movement
- 35-In the end the national movement will win the respect of the Administration in Constantinople
- 36-Ferid Pasha’s Cabinet could only hold out for three days longer
- 37-Kerim Pasha had succeeded in showing the Sultan
- 38-Suggesting that we should ourselves go to Constantinople
- 39-Ali Riza Pasha had been asked to form a new Cabinet
- 40-The Cabinet has not been informed about the character of the organisations
- 41-The first business of the Cabinet was to expel the Representative Committee
- 42-Junus Nadi Bey willingly accepted his proposal
- 43-Kiasim Kara Bekir Pasha advanced these ideas:
- 44-The journalists of Stambul had founded a society
- 45-Was it not the fact that Wilson had actually retired from the stage?
- 46-Complete unity had been arrived
- 47-”You will proclaim a republic a republic!”
- 48-The English had successively left Mersifun and Samsoon
- 49-A national Government, supported by a National Assembly would seriously accept the responsibility of the destiny of the nation
- 50-Just as we were leaving Sivas for Amasia
- 51-The “Liberal Understanding” party and the unions of “Nikehban” and the “Friends of England” formed one party
- 52-Finally, they advised us “not to come to Constantinople until peace had been signed
- 53-The place for the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies
- 54-Government in Constantinople has no freedom of action
- 55-The “Union for the Defence of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia”
- 56-The Government insist on these three demands
- 57-The intrigues of our enemies at home and abroad began to produce results
- 62-The corrupt atmosphere of Constantinople
- 63-To grant territorial compensation in Eastern Anatolia to the Armenians
- 64-Yahia Kapdan had been murdered
- 65-The Allied Powers objected
- 68-The points dealt with in Djemal Pasha s letters
- 69-All Riza Pasha s Government came into power on the 2 nd October, 1919
- 70-Wilson’s principles, Some of the fourteen points included in them apply to Turkey
- 71-In the Erzerum and Sivas Congresses the national will had clearly been formulated
- 74-The Greeks began their offensive on the 3 rd March 1920
- 75-By an armistice based on Wilson s principles, the nation has been deprived of all means of defence
- 77-If God be willing, on Friday the 23 st April, you are informed hereby that from this day forward the National Assembly will be the lawful authority
- 80-There is nothing in history to show how the policy of Panislamism could have succeeded
- 83-The internal upheavals, which began during the year 1920 against our national organisation, spread rapidly throughout the country
- 84-Now let us recall the situation on the different fronts immediately after the Assembly was opened
- 85-1. The Greek Front at Smyrna
- 86-2. The French Southern Front
- 87-As at this time certain preparations of the enemy on the Greek front became noticeable
- 88-The Greeks began their general attack on the 22 nd June, 1920
- 89-I will tell you something about the “Green Army,”
- 90-Tsherkess Reshid Bey, a Deputy, and his brothers Edhem Bey and Tewfik Bey joined the founders of the organisation
- 91-The notorious letter written by Tchitcherin has to a certain extent contributed to the failure of the military operations
- 92-We appointed Kiasim Kara Bekir Pasha, commanding the XV th Army Corps, to command the troops on the Eastern front
- 93-2 nd December, and during that night the treaty was signed at Gumru
- 94-Under the treaty of Moscow Batum was abandoned again later on
- 95-The Central Committee of the “Thrace and Pasha Eli” Society
- 96-Who are trusted to watch over the political requirements of the situation
- 97-Deli Bash occupied Konia and seized the administration
- 98-At this time the Greek Army had three divisions in the district of Brusa
- 99-The amendment of the Act relating to Ministerial election
- 100-Return to the point where I had left off, namely, concerning the Western front
- 105-The movements of the enemy and the enemy’s front
- 106-The object of which will be to consider a solution of the Eastern question
- 107-The Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey have repeatedly declared that they are earnestly and sincerely desirous of peace
- 110-The Constitution Act
- 112-It is not necessary that the Turkish Nation and the High As sembly should occupy themselves so minutely with the Caliphate and the Monarchy
- 115-Italy undertook to support our claims at the Conference for the restitution of Thrace and Smyrna
- 117-Eventually I took recourse to forming a party myself under the name of the “Party for the Defence of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia.”
- 120-The aim he had before him was to preserve the Caliphate and Sultanate and to prevent, at all costs, the establishment of a Republican Government
- 125-The events connected with the great battle on the Sakaria
- 132-After the battle on the Sakaria this agreement was signed at Angora on the 20 th October, 1921
- 136-I spoke about the Pontus question
- 140-Those members of the Assembly who had forgotten the victory on the Sakaria
- 145-I want to mention that the Grand National Assembly is not only a legislative assembly but it also pos sesses the executive power
- 150-You know that the Sultanate and the Caliphate, taken separately or jointly, were regarded as questions of very great importance
- 155-A motion was drafted describing the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of a New Turkish State
- 160-The plenary sitting of the Lausanne Conference took place on the 28th November, 1922
- 163-The ” public opinion of the Mohamedan world would be alarmed and perturbed.”
- 165-As the first duty of the Assembly that “the prescriptions of the Sheri should be put into force.”
- 167-I had long conversations everywhere with people on the formation of a political party
- 170-I shall now revert to the Lausanne Conference
- 175-I shall now describe to you what happened at Angora on Monday, the 29 th October
- 180-Let us once more read some of the questions and answers exchanged during an interview between Rauf Bey and the proprietors and chief editors of the newspapers “Watan” and “Tewhid
- 185-I believed that the moment for the abolition of the Caliphate had arrived
- 188-About a great plot
- 190-This holy treasure I lay in the hands of the youth of Turkey
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