Abstract:

The military phase of the National Struggle was concluded with victory in 1922. On the Western Front the Turkish Army, which moved forward with the Battle of Sakarya, achieved a decisive victory in August 1922 with the Great Offensive and the Battle of the Commander-in-Chief. The next process will be the crowning of military victory with diplomatic victory; this victory will be won with the Mudanya Armistice and the Lausanne Peace Agreement. The Mudanya Armistice ended the war between the Turkish-Greek forces and laid the groundwork for a future peace agreement. According to the terms of the armistice, the most important issue was the gradual evacuation of Eastern Thrace, including Edirne, by the Greek forces and the allies, and its surrender to the Ankara Government. Ankara Government assigned Refet Pasha to take over Thrace; He also gave him the authority to represent the Ankara Government in Istanbul. In this study, the speeches of Refet Pasha, who was officially appointed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, about the sultanate administration in Istanbul and his attitudes and behaviors before the sultanate-caliphate authorities will be will be evaluated in terms of their place in the abolition of the sultanate and the reflections of this process in the domestic and foreign press.

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