HIST 46 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Staff College, Turkey
Document Summary
Iran and turkey share similar fates after ww1: both were ruled by authoritarian modernizers, none were under mandates, were relatively independent. Turkish resistance to treaty of sevres: the treaty would have broken up the empire into nation-states, the turks saw the treaty as endangerment to the turkish nation. Led by mustafa kemal: kemal is a general who led a military resistance. May 14, 1919: greece sends troops to izmir in brutal campaign, and by 1921 control. Bursa: the greek did ethnic cleansing of turkish muslims in izmir, a lot of western anatolia is taken by greece. Autumn 1920 turkey and soviet union invade and partition armenia. 1921 soviet and french recognition of ankara government, italy withdraws from. Anatolia: russia recognizes ankara b/c it is in opposition to western powers, france wants to check the british and don"t care about turkey.
