Turkish War of Independence

Turkish War of Independence
Part of	of the Revolutions of 1917-1923 in the aftermath of World War I
Date	19 May, 1919 - 11 October 1922 (armistice) July 24, 1923 (peace) (4 years, 2 months and 5 days)
Location	Anatolia Southwestern Caucasus Upper Mesopotamia East Thrace
Causes	Occupation of parts of Ottoman Empireball and partition after its defeat in World War I
Result	Turkish victory
Territorial changes	Establishment of Republic of Turkey
Belligerents
Turkish Nationalist: Ankara Governmentball (1919-1920, 1920-1923) Also: Azerbaijanball (1918-1920) Aras Republicball (1918-1919) Iğdır Millî Cumhuriyetiball (1918-1920) Green Armyball (1919-1920) Syriaball (1919-1920) Alawite rebelsball (1919-1921) Oltu Council Government (1919-1920) Aleppo Revolt (1920-1921) Kurdistanball (1919; 1921-1923) Senusiyyaball Supported by: Russian SFSRball Ukrainian SSRball (1919-1923) Azerbaijan SSRball (1920-1923) Bukharan SSRball (1920-1923) Italyball Franceball (from 1921) Indian nationalistsball Afghanistanball
Entente Powers: Greeceball Franceball (until 1921) French West Africaball Armenian Legionball Algeriaball Moroccoball Tunisiaball UKball Indiaball Armeniaball (in 1920) Supported by: USAball South Russiaball Istanbul Governmentball Georgiaball (in 1921) Separatists: Pontic Greek Rebelsball Kurdish Rebelsball Assyrian Rebelsball Green Armyball (1920-1921)
Commanders
Mustafa Kemal Pasha Mustafa Fevzi Pasha Mustafa İsmet Pasha Kazım Karabekir Pasha Fahrettin Altay Ali Fuat Cebesoy Refet Bele Nureddin Pasha Ali İhsan Pasha Topal Osman Ethem the Circassian (1919-1920) Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi
Constantine I (From 1920) Alexander I (Until 1920)† Eleftherios Venizelos (Until 1920) Anastasios Papoulas (Until 1922) Georgios Hatzianestis (Until 1922)† Leonidas Paraskevopoulos (Until 1920) Kimon Digenis (Until 1922)POW Nikolaos Trikoupis POW Herni Gouraud (Until 1921) Drastamat Kanayan (1920) Movses Silikyan (1920) Sir George Milne Mehmed VI (Until 1922) Damat Ferid Pasha (Until 1920) Süleyman Şefik Pasha Anzavur Ahmed Pasha (Until 1921) † Ethem the Circassian (1920-1921) Alişer
Strength
Ankara Governmentball: May 1919: 35,000, November 1920: 86,000 (creation of regular army), August 1922: 271,000
Greeceball: Dec. 1919: 80,000, 1922: 200,000–250,000 Franceball: 60,000 UKball: 30,000 Armeniaball: 20,000 Istanbul Governmentball: 7,000 (at peak)
Casualties
Ankara Governmentball: 13,000 killed, 22,690 died of disease, 5,362 died of wounds or other non-combat causes, 35,000 wounded, 7,000 prisoners
Greeceball: 24,240 killed, 18,095 missing, 48,880 wounded, 4,878 died outside of combat, 13,740 prisoners Armeniaball: 1,100+ killed, 3,000+ prisoners Franceball: ~7,000
Notes
264,000 Greek civilians killed, 60,000–250,000 Armenian civilians killed, 15,000+ Turkish civilians killed in the Western Front, 30,000+ buildings and 250+ villages burnt to the ground by the Hellenic Army and Greek/Armenian rebels.

“	Peace at home, peace in the World	”
	— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“	As they have come,so they will go!	”
	— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Turkish War of Independence was a conflict to overthrow the Sultanate in Asia Minor, and to unite main Turkish land.

History

After Ottomanball's defeat in World War One, Treaty of Sevres would have given vast amounts of Anatolian clay to Armeniaball, Greeceball and Kurdistanball. Franceball and UKball were occupying territories too. But Turkeyball would have none of it. USAball had been the biggest pusher of the treaty.

Turkeyball began fighting off Greeceball and invading Armeniaball, taking over Karsball and Alexandropolball but being defeated at Sardarapatball and prevented from taking Armeniaball's Caucasus clay. Turkeyball also tried to take over Adjaraball from DR Georgiaball since it had kebab living there. The allies of World War I thought about jumping in. Franceball invaded Syria and southern Anatolia, UKball invaded Iraq and gave economic support to Greeceball, Armeniaball invaded East Anatolia and Greece invaded western Anatolia. Turkeyball defeated Armeniaball by his army, and Turkish people defeated Franceball by themselves. After these sides of war ended, Turkey sent all his army to west so that he could defeat Greece. After Turkey defeated Greece, Turkey made Treaty of Lausanne. Meanwhile Sovietball took over Armeniaball and gave Turkeyball most of his clay in Treaty of Kars, hoping Turkeyball would become a commie if he did (Turkeyball didn't). Kurds tried to rebel by UK's support, but they failed. And so Turkeyball was into independence and having Anatolian clay to himself. But British Iraq and Turkey' s border did not draw.

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