Özet:

Great European states believed that, through their triumph in the World War I and the Mondros Armistice Agreement which they compelled Turks to sign on October 30,1918, they had taken the opportunity to demolish the Ottoman Empire called “Sick Man” by them. It was a trifling obstacle for the Entente states to legalize and legitimize the advantages they had gained with the Mondros Armistice Agreement and to direct the İstanbul Government in line with their own motives. They would try to overcome these obstacles and to break the resistance by way of intimidation or occupation despite the armistice, pass over the manifested resistance and dictate the Treaty of Sevres which was to enslave Turks under the guise of peace. This injustice launched by great European states ripened Anatolia-centered national struggle under the leadership of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, which in turn paved the way for the Turkish Grand National Assembly emanating from this nation to be an authority de jure. All the plans collapsed when the Turkish Grand National Assembly opposed the treaty by saying, “we can not draw up a peace settlement with the Entente Governments on no consideration and pretext as long as the Treaty of Sevres is exposed”, whereas it had been approved by the Council of the Sultanate on July 22, 1920, in contemplation of “existing feebly rather than falling down”. The Treaty of Sevres claimed its place in history despite the distortion it created in the minds of Turks in such a way that it was interpreted as “delivering our heads out of a window to the hands of marauders while leaving our bodies inside a very safe and solid building.”