Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 (Vol 12): Ankara
The series titled Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 renews Türkiye's local memory of the National Struggle from city to city and shows how the years of the National Struggle were experienced in all over the country. With the participation and contribution of many academics and researchers, this study, in which the traces of the National Struggle at the local level are compiled and evaluated, aims to create a historical memory that people can feel themselves as a part of by harnessing the democratic, civil and participatory means of local history.
With the transfer of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and the delegation from Sivas to Ankara, Ankara became the center of the National Struggle. In the period following Ankara's becoming the center of the National Struggle, political, military, economic and diplomatic power shifted from Istanbul to Ankara as a result of the successes achieved by the national forces. What had been a small Anatolian town at the beginning of the twentieth century was transformed into a prosperous capital city by the end of 1922. In the year following the great victory over the great imperialist powers of the time, Britain, France, Italy and Greece, which had embarked on the “Asia Minor Adventure” with their support, Türkiye officially crowned Ankara as the capital city of the new state.
Editor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Göleç, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kevser Şerefoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlhami Danış
Volume Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Süleyman Beyoğlu, Prof. Dr. Ali Satan