1905 to 1907
Damascus and the first secret society
In Damascus Mustafa Kemal serves with a cavalry regiment in the Hauran. In 1906 he and a few fellow officers form a secret society, Vatan (Fatherland). He travels in secret to Thessaloniki and starts a branch there under the name Vatan ve Hürriyet (Fatherland and Freedom). In 1907 he is posted back to Macedonia and joins the Committee of Union and Progress.
Mustafa Kemal (centre) with fellow Fifth Army officers in Beirut, 15 July 1906Wikimedia Commons, Unknown author, Public domain ((15 July 1906) Beirut, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with Lütfi Müfit Özdeş.jpg)
Officers of the Fifth Army, Beirut, 1906Wikimedia Commons, Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0 ((15 July 1906 Beirut) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and military companions.jpg)
Sources
- Andrew Mango, Atatürk (1999).
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