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Occupation of Istanbul,

the last Ottoman Parliament

and the National Pact

T he occupation of Izmir further sped up the Anatolian independence

campaign and provided it with more supporters. The Erzurum Con-
gress of July-August 1919 and Sivas Congress of September 1919

were the first platforms where the representative groups for the Turkish Na-
tion first appeared. In almost every Anatolian city, resistance groups were

forming, which later converged under a single organization called The Union
for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia. The independence cam-

paign, in the meantime, gained a new name: the Kuva-yi Milliye (National
Forces). In December 1919, elections were held for the Chamber of Deputies

of the Ottoman Parliament, in line with the Amasya Protocol of October 22,
1919. People supporting the ideas of the National Forces were elected as Par-

liament Members while Mustafa Kemal became a MP for Erzurum.

On January 12, 1920, the newly elected Parliament convened in Istanbul,
which would be the last gathering of the Ottoman Parliament. Following the

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