Open History Book
Atatürk and the Turkish Republic
1881 – 1914: The making of an officer
1881
Born in Thessaloniki
1896 to 1899
Military high school at Bitola
1899 to 1905
War College and Staff College in İstanbul
1905 to 1907
Damascus and the first secret society
July 1908 to April 1909
The 1908 revolution and the Action Army
December 1911 to October 1912
Tobruk and Derna
November 1912 to July 1913
The Balkan Wars, Gallipoli and Edirne
October 1913 to January 1915
Military attaché in Sofia
1915 – 1918: The Great War
25 April 1915
Anzac Cove: the landing at Gallipoli
25 April 1915, dawn
Anzac Cove: the landing at dawn
25 April 1915, morning
Anzac Cove: the 57th Regiment
25 April 1915, afternoon and evening
Anzac Cove: the counterattack
6 to 10 August 1915
Suvla and Chunuk Bair
6 to 8 August 1915
Suvla: the August offensive
9 August 1915
Suvla: the dawn attack
10 August 1915
Chunuk Bair: the counterattack
August 1916
Muş and Bitlis, the Caucasus front
July 1917 to July 1918
The Seventh Army, and a journey to Germany
September to October 1918
The Syrian front and the retreat to Aleppo
30 October to 13 November 1918
The Armistice of Mudros and the Allied fleet in İstanbul
1919 – 1923: The War of Independence
1919
May
15 to 19 May 1919
Occupation, and the landing at Samsun
22 June to 11 September 1919
Amasya, Erzurum, Sivas
1920
27 December 1919 to 23 April 1920
Ankara and the Grand National Assembly
June to August 1920
The Greek summer offensive
10 August 1920
The Treaty of Sèvres
September to December 1920
The Eastern front and the Treaty of Alexandropol
1921
January to April 1921
First and Second İnönü
9 to 11 January 1921
İnönü: the first battle
23 March to 1 April 1921
İnönü: Metristepe
Sakarya
10 July to 5 August 1921
Kütahya and Eskişehir, the retreat to the Sakarya
July 1921
Kütahya: the Greek summer offensive
16 to 25 July 1921
Eskişehir: the withdrawal to the Sakarya
23 August to 13 September 1921
The battle on the Sakarya
10 to 25 August 1921
Sakarya: the march round the flank
26 August to 2 September 1921
Sakarya: the assault on the heights
8 to 13 September 1921
Sakarya: the counterattack
19 September 1921
Field marshal and Gazi
20 October 1921
The Ankara Agreement with France
1922
The Great Offensive
June to August 1922
The year of preparation
26 to 27 August 1922
Kocatepe and the breakthrough at Afyon
26 August 1922
Great Offensive: the barrage at dawn
27 August 1922
Great Offensive: the breakthrough at Erkmentepe
27 to 28 August 1922
Great Offensive: two Greek groups
29 August 1922
Great Offensive: the ring around Trikoupis
30 August 1922
Dumlupınar, the commander in chief's battle
30 August 1922
Dumlupınar: the battle at Alıören
31 August to 2 September 1922
Dumlupınar: the surrender of the Trikoupis group
1 to 18 September 1922
The pursuit to İzmir
11 October 1922
The Armistice of Mudanya
1 November 1922
The sultanate is abolished
1923
24 July 1923
The Treaty of Lausanne
13 to 29 October 1923
Ankara becomes the capital and the Republic is proclaimed
1923 – 1939: Epilogue
1923 to 1938
The reforms and the end
1936 to 1939
Hatay joins Turkey
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