Abstract:

The Field the Battle of Sakarya is a Turkish and Greek struggle that lasted 22 days and 22 nights. This battle, over 100 year ago, is the name of the great struggle of a nation for its independence. After the Armistice of Mudros, the Turkish struggle for Independence, which started under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was shaped by the resistance movements of the people in the first stage. The Turkish revolutionaries not only prevented the advance of the enemy especially on the Western Front, but also stopped the enemy from time to time. Until the regular army was formed, it gave time to the leader of the National Struggle and the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye which was formed later. With the formation of the regular army and the recovery on the Eastern and Southern fronts, it has been heralded that it is time to make a radical struggle with Greece in the West. On the west side; Although the successes in the First Battle of İnönü and the Second Battle of İnönü were welcomed, the retreat in the Battle of Kütahya Eskişehir demoralized. Thereupon, the Turkish Nation had to fight one of the most important defense wars of its history and destiny. These struggles, which lasted 22 days and 22 nights in the research; the research works were tried to be evaluated briefly by supporting the archive documents obtained from the Presidency of the Republic of The Türkiye Directorate of State Archives. The research is an effort to illuminate the Field Battle of Sakarya, which has been over 100 years, from the perspective of the century we live in.

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