HIST 46 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Turkish Straits, Turkish Nationalism, Turkish War Of Independence
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Chapter 10: authoritarian reform in turkey and iran. Both iran and turkey had authoritarian rulers that promoted secularlism backed by national symbols. At the end of ww1, istanbul was controlled by the allies and cup leaders fled the country. Mehmet vi was sultan and he dismissed parliament shortly after. Turkish resistance forces rose against the occupation and mustafa kemal was one of the generals. Other ottoman generals deferred to kemal and they finally united when greece invaded. Greece took izmir and bursa and posed a significant threat to kemal"s nationalist forces. Kemal attempted to legitimize his government by convening a grand national assembly composed of various dissolved parliament members and leaders of resistance groups. They created the national pact which renounced all claims to arab provinces and affirmed the right to turkish sovereignty in anatolia. Turkey and the soviet union invaded armenia and divided it up.
