Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 (Vol 4): Adana - Kahramanmaraş - Şanlıurfa - Kilis Gaziantep - Hatay - Mersin - Osmaniye
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.
Following the Armistice of Mudros, Çukurova and its environs were among the places occupied by the Allied Powers. Adana, Mersin, Iskenderun, Maraş, Urfa, Antep, Hatay and Kilis were also included in the occupation zones. This volume of the Local History of the National Struggle 1918-1923 series focuses on the National Struggle of the Anatolian people in the French occupation zone and the liberation of the Çukurova region from enemy occupation by analyzing archival documents, the memories of those who lived through the war and previous research on this subject.
Editor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Göleç, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Kevser Şerefoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlhami Danış
Volume Coordinator: Prof. Dr.Nejla Günay