EFFORTS OF ALİ GALİP TO PREVENT SİVAS CONGRESS


World War I, which started in August 1914 between the Allied Powers and Alliance States, Bulgaria from the Alliance States on 28 September, the Ottoman Empire on 30 October, Austria-Hungary Empire on 3 November and finally Germany It ended with the ceasefire treaties signed by the Empire on 11 November. A few days after the Armistice of Mondros, the Entente Navy came to the Dardanelles and on 13 November Istanbul was actually occupied. In addition, the British Mosul, Urfa, Antep, Maras, Batumi and Kars; The French were Dörtyol, Mersin, Pozantı, Adana; Italians occupied Antalya, Kusadasi, Fethiye, Bodrum and Marmaris. Following these occupations, İzzet Pasha was withdrawn from the Grand Vizierate and replaced by Damat Ferit Pasha as Grand Vizier. For the peace treaty to be held after each ceasefire agreement, negotiations began with the participation of the winners and defeated states in Paris on January 18, 1919. Thirty-two states participated in the peace talks. In the conference, the Entente Powers decided to comply with the secret treaties that they had signed during the war and during the war. While Britain and France were trying to prevent the US from being active in these negotiations, they did not replace the US with the US War. The US has reduced its relations with European states after the conference due to the attitudes here. In the conference, while drafting the understandings of peace with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, the state of the Ottoman Empire was left to be more advanced as Russia withdrew from the war in 1917. The Armenian representatives who participated in the conference expressed the idea of establishing an independent Armenian State in Eastern Anatolia for the first time. The proposal of Britain and France to expel soldiers to Izmir and its surroundings was accepted. The Greek army then invaded İzmir on May 15, 1919 and began to move from three branches to the inner regions. On May 16, 1919, the Ottoman Sultan Sultan VI. Mehmet Kemal Vahdettin was appointed as the 9th Army Inspector by Mustafa Kemal from Istanbul, on May 19, 1919. Mustafa Kemal had moved to the inner regions within the framework of his previous plans and issued the Basin Declaration on 28 May and the Amasya Circular on 22 June. In line with this circular, Erzurum Congress was gathered regionally and national decisions were taken at the meeting. Then in September, Sivas National Congress will be held. At this time, in order to prevent such a national congress from being organized, the Government of Istanbul appointed the Governor of Elazığ Ali Galip Bey. In this study, Turkish and German sources on these activities, mainly Nutuk, were used. The research was carried out by using the document analysis technique within the qualitative research design. The results were evaluated by content analysis. The study will contribute to the field in terms of use of German resources.


Keywords


National Struggle, Sivas Congress, Elazig, Ali Galip, England.

Author : Yüksel KAŞTAN
Number of pages: 903-927
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.39394
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Turkish Studies - Historical Analysis
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