This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Background
Hamid II sultan of ottoman empire from 1876-1908 (young Turk revolution) |
he was the red sultan |
His brother mehmed v after 1908 |
first war
It was bad for ottomans- allies captured baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem |
1918- Mehmed VI became the king |
treaty serves 1920- relinquishing of territories by turks except some of istanbul and gave up control of finance |
Kemal pasha
born in 1881 in salonica, middle class, turkish speaking and muslim |
he attended muslim schools and went to War College in Istanbul |
he joined military and was a part of young turn revolution but later focused on his military career |
1915- Gallipoli peninsula |
1919- founded a military movement in ankara |
The republic
he knew the sultan was incompetent so he estb. a seat of his provisional govt in ankara |
GNA - 1920 new elects - mustafa became president |
he took back straits, thrace and istanbul- treaty null and void |
1922- GNA abolished the Sultanate |
1923-Treaty of Lausanne |
oct 29 1923- turkish republic estb. with ankara as capital |
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