Historical Organization
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
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Organization Timeline
Treaty of Sèvres attempts to partition the Ottoman Empire
📅 10 August 1920The Allied powers signed the Treaty of Sèvres with the Ottoman government, proposing extensive territorial losses, international controls, and new zones of influence. The agreement was never...
Treaty of Kars fixes borders without popular consent
đź“… 13 October 1921Representatives of Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey signed a treaty defining borders in the South Caucasus. The settlement displaced earlier wartime and postwar claims,...
Ankara agreement ends fighting between France and Turkish nationalists
đź“… 20 October 1921France and the Turkish National Movement signed an agreement ending hostilities in Cilicia and adjusting the frontier between French-controlled Syria and Turkey. The settlement recognized the...
Ottoman sultanate is abolished
📅 1 November 1922The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the sultanate, formally ending the Ottoman dynasty’s political rule. The decision followed military victory by the Turkish national movement and the...
Lausanne Treaty replaces the rejected Treaty of Sèvres
📅 24 July 1923The Lausanne Treaty recognized the borders of the new Turkish state and replaced the unimplemented Treaty of Sèvres. It ended the legal state of war between Turkey and the Allied powers, but did not...
Turkey is proclaimed a republic after imperial collapse
đź“… 29 October 1923The Grand National Assembly proclaimed the Republic of Turkey and elected Mustafa Kemal as its first president. The republic emerged from the Ottoman Empire's collapse, foreign occupation, and a...