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1919

May

15
- The Greek landing at SmyrnaOn 15 May 1919 Greek troops landed at Smyrna with the consent of the powers. The shooting and killing of Turks that day inflamed Turkish resistance.

1920

August

10
- The Treaty of SèvresOn 10 August 1920 the Sultan's government signed a peace at Sèvres carving up the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal's movement overturned it by force.

1922

October

11
- The Armistice of MudanyaOn 11 October 1922 at Mudanya on the Sea of Marmara, Ankara made an armistice with the Allies. Greece gave up Eastern Thrace and the war with Turkey ended.

November

01
- The abolition of the Ottoman sultanateOn 1 November 1922 the Grand National Assembly in Ankara abolished the sultanate. The Ottoman dynasty lost power and Mehmed VI fled aboard a British warship.

1923

July

24
- The Treaty of LausanneOn 24 July 1923 at Lausanne, Turkey made peace with the Allied powers and Greece. The treaty replaced Sèvres and recognised the new Turkish state's sovereignty.

October

29
- The proclamation of the Turkish RepublicOn 29 October 1923 the Grand National Assembly in Ankara declared Turkey a republic and elected Mustafa Kemal as its first president.

1934

February

09
- The Balkan PactOn 9 February 1934 in Athens Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania and Turkey guaranteed each other’s Balkan borders. Bulgaria and Albania stayed out of the Entente.

1939

September

11
- Turkey and Bulgaria stay neutralOn 11 September 1939 Prime Minister Refik Saydam announced that Turkey would stay out of the war for now. On 15 September Bulgaria formally declared neutrality.

1940

November

01
- Turkey and the Greco-Italian WarOn 1 November 1940 İnönü assured parliament that Turkey would stay out of the war and was studying the situation after Italy’s attack on Greece with Britain.

1945

February

23
- Turkey declares war on GermanyOn 23 February 1945 the Turkish Grand National Assembly unanimously declared war on Germany and Japan to secure a place among the founders of the UN.