33-The Sovereign has been deceived
The Sovereign has been deceived
“It is exactly on this very point that the Sovereign has been deceived.
“The sole means of salvation and the only support of our existence are based on the fact that the national strength shall become the ruling factor, and the will of the nation the sovereign power. To depart in the slightest degree from this firm and lawful basis would May God forbid it ! mean a source of disappointment to the State, the people and the country.
“It is an unfortunate and an undoubted fact that there are many evil-minded persons May the earth swallow them up ! who have no scruples about falsely describing and representing our noble na tional enterprise publicly before the world.
“But what is extremely sad, is the fact that at the head of these accursed evil-minded people there are political personalities in our immortal State, such as Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier, Aadil Bey and Suleiman Shefik Pasha, who are Ministers.
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- About
- Ghazi Mustapha Kemal’s Appeal to Turkish Youth
- The Great Speech
- 01-Landing at Samsun
- 04-Travel to Sivas
- 05-We arrived at Erzerum
- 08-The Congress met at Erzerum on the 23 rd July, 1919
- 11-Arrived at Sivas on the 2 nd September
- 13-The Congress was opened on Thursday, the 4 th September
- 14-I will mention the most important resolutions
- 15-This motion relates to American mandate
- 16-Italy and England have offered a mandate
- 17-The religious class has already pursued this idea
- 18-Allow Turkey her freedom so that she would suffocate
- 19-Our reasons for thinking against the mandate
- 20-Europe especially Great Britain wants raise the Armenian Question
- 21-Ideas concerning the mandate and independence
- 22-The Americans who are now in Constantinople say
- 23-A public meeting was held in which the inhabitants of Sivas took part
- 24-I continually received intelligence while the Congress
- 25-Ali Galib’s case
- 26-Our first object was to lay these facts before the Padishah
- 27-The 12 th September, the moment when the rupture between Anatolia and Stambul took place
- 28-I had been condemned to death by the Padishah and the Government
- 29-We received threatening and intimidating telegrams
- 30-A Commission, under the leadership of General Harbord
- 31-To come to an understanding with the leaders of the national movement
- 32-The late Abdul Kerim Pasha
- 33-The Sovereign has been deceived
- 34-About the rumours that the national movement is in reality a Bolshevik movement
- 35-In the end the national movement will win the respect of the Administration in Constantinople
- 36-Ferid Pasha’s Cabinet could only hold out for three days longer
- 37-Kerim Pasha had succeeded in showing the Sultan
- 38-Suggesting that we should ourselves go to Constantinople
- 39-Ali Riza Pasha had been asked to form a new Cabinet
- 40-The Cabinet has not been informed about the character of the organisations
- 41-The first business of the Cabinet was to expel the Representative Committee
- 42-Junus Nadi Bey willingly accepted his proposal
- 43-Kiasim Kara Bekir Pasha advanced these ideas:
- 44-The journalists of Stambul had founded a society
- 45-Was it not the fact that Wilson had actually retired from the stage?
- 46-Complete unity had been arrived
- 47-“You will proclaim a republic a republic!”
- 48-The English had successively left Mersifun and Samsoon
- 49-A national Government, supported by a National Assembly would seriously accept the responsibility of the destiny of the nation
- 50-Just as we were leaving Sivas for Amasia
- 51-The “Liberal Understanding” party and the unions of “Nikehban” and the “Friends of England” formed one party
- 52-Finally, they advised us “not to come to Constantinople until peace had been signed
- 53-The place for the meeting of the Chamber of Deputies
- 54-Government in Constantinople has no freedom of action
- 55-The “Union for the Defence of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia”
- 56-The Government insist on these three demands
- 57-The intrigues of our enemies at home and abroad began to produce results
- 62-The corrupt atmosphere of Constantinople
- 63-To grant territorial compensation in Eastern Anatolia to the Armenians
- 64-Yahia Kapdan had been murdered
- 65-The Allied Powers objected
- 68-The points dealt with in Djemal Pasha s letters
- 69-All Riza Pasha s Government came into power on the 2 nd October, 1919
- 70-Wilson’s principles, Some of the fourteen points included in them apply to Turkey
- 71-In the Erzerum and Sivas Congresses the national will had clearly been formulated
- 74-The Greeks began their offensive on the 3 rd March 1920
- 75-By an armistice based on Wilson s principles, the nation has been deprived of all means of defence
- 77-If God be willing, on Friday the 23 st April, you are informed hereby that from this day forward the National Assembly will be the lawful authority
- 80-There is nothing in history to show how the policy of Panislamism could have succeeded
- 83-The internal upheavals, which began during the year 1920 against our national organisation, spread rapidly throughout the country
- 84-Now let us recall the situation on the different fronts immediately after the Assembly was opened
- 85-1. The Greek Front at Smyrna
- 86-2. The French Southern Front
- 87-As at this time certain preparations of the enemy on the Greek front became noticeable
- 88-The Greeks began their general attack on the 22 nd June, 1920
- 89-I will tell you something about the “Green Army,”
- 90-Tsherkess Reshid Bey, a Deputy, and his brothers Edhem Bey and Tewfik Bey joined the founders of the organisation
- 91-The notorious letter written by Tchitcherin has to a certain extent contributed to the failure of the military operations
- 92-We appointed Kiasim Kara Bekir Pasha, commanding the XV th Army Corps, to command the troops on the Eastern front
- 93-2 nd December, and during that night the treaty was signed at Gumru
- 94-Under the treaty of Moscow Batum was abandoned again later on
- 95-The Central Committee of the “Thrace and Pasha Eli” Society
- 96-Who are trusted to watch over the political requirements of the situation
- 97-Deli Bash occupied Konia and seized the administration
- 98-At this time the Greek Army had three divisions in the district of Brusa
- 99-The amendment of the Act relating to Ministerial election
- 100-Return to the point where I had left off, namely, concerning the Western front
- 105-The movements of the enemy and the enemy’s front
- 106-The object of which will be to consider a solution of the Eastern question
- 107-The Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey have repeatedly declared that they are earnestly and sincerely desirous of peace
- 110-The Constitution Act
- 112-It is not necessary that the Turkish Nation and the High As sembly should occupy themselves so minutely with the Caliphate and the Monarchy
- 115-Italy undertook to support our claims at the Conference for the restitution of Thrace and Smyrna
- 117-Eventually I took recourse to forming a party myself under the name of the “Party for the Defence of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia.”
- 120-The aim he had before him was to preserve the Caliphate and Sultanate and to prevent, at all costs, the establishment of a Republican Government
- 125-The events connected with the great battle on the Sakaria
- 132-After the battle on the Sakaria this agreement was signed at Angora on the 20 th October, 1921
- 136-I spoke about the Pontus question
- 140-Those members of the Assembly who had forgotten the victory on the Sakaria
- 145-I want to mention that the Grand National Assembly is not only a legislative assembly but it also pos sesses the executive power
- 150-You know that the Sultanate and the Caliphate, taken separately or jointly, were regarded as questions of very great importance
- 155-A motion was drafted describing the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of a New Turkish State
- 160-The plenary sitting of the Lausanne Conference took place on the 28th November, 1922
- 163-The ” public opinion of the Mohamedan world would be alarmed and perturbed.”
- 165-As the first duty of the Assembly that “the prescriptions of the Sheri should be put into force.”
- 167-I had long conversations everywhere with people on the formation of a political party
- 170-I shall now revert to the Lausanne Conference
- 175-I shall now describe to you what happened at Angora on Monday, the 29 th October
- 180-Let us once more read some of the questions and answers exchanged during an interview between Rauf Bey and the proprietors and chief editors of the newspapers “Watan” and “Tewhid
- 185-I believed that the moment for the abolition of the Caliphate had arrived
- 188-About a great plot
- 190-This holy treasure I lay in the hands of the youth of Turkey
- Who is Ghazi Mustapha Kemal
The great speech 