Özet:

The Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire was deactivated after the official invasion of Istanbul by the allied powers on March 16, 1920. The Chamber decided on suspending their meetings especially upon the forcible arrests of some deputies by the occupation forces in the Parliament Building. Mustafa Kemal Pasha set over upon the deactivation of the assembly by the allied powers with the aim of not leading the people’s will to be passed over and proclaimed that a national assembly would be established in Ankara. In line with this objective, he gave the military and civil senior officers the instructions related with how the elections for the new assembly would be held and how the ceremonies to be performed before the inauguration would be conducted. The 20th Corps residing in Ankara prepared a detailed and sketched programme for the deployment of the ceremonial units on the inauguration day. The present research discusses the details of the instructions and programme concerning the inauguration of the Grand National Assembly.

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