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The Army and the Founding of the Turkish Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Dankwart A. Rustow
Dankwart A. Rustow
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Modern Turkish history furnishes numerous examples of active participation by the military in politics. The so-called “Young Turk Revolution” of 1908, in fact, may well be regarded as the prototype of Near Eastern military coups of this century. A decade later, Mustafa Kemal [Atatürk] and other army officers took the lead in creating a nationalist Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the multinational Ottoman Empire. Since the proclamation of the Republic in 1923, however, the Turkish army has abstained from any such obvious role on the political stage.

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World Politics , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , July 1959 , pp. 513 - 552
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1959

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34 Türkgeldi, , op.cit., p. 211.Google ScholarŞakir, Marshal Mehmed, the minister in question, died two months later, in June 1919Google Scholar, at the age of 65, while serving as minister without portfolio.

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43 There were exceptions with regard to age, as well as to ethnic origin (see above). Among the aged generals who showed some nationalist leanings may be cited Marshal Fuad Paşa (1835–1931; known as “Crazy Fuad”), who at 84 called in person on the Sultan to transmit the Anatolian nationalists' petition for dismissal of Damad Ferid (Türkgeldi, , op.cit., p. 244)Google Scholar; and Ali Riza Paşa (1854–1921; known as Topçu Riza or Livanali Riza, and not to be confused with Prime Minister Ali Riza Paşa [1860–1932]), who demonstratively abstained from the vote by which the Privy Council approved the Sèvres Treaty in July 1920 (İnal, , op.cit., p. 2063)Google Scholar; as well as İsmail Fazil Paşa (see above).

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59 Kemal's instructions are reprinted in facsimile and transliterated in Harp Tarihi Vesikalari Dergisi, I, No. I (September 1952), doc. 3. Mehmed Ali, who happened to be Acting Minister of Interior in mid-May, drew attention to a geographic oversight in that document: The mutasarrifliks of Kayseri and Maraş also bordered on the 9th Army's area; should they have been included in the list? By all means, was the War Office's reply. Ibid., (docs. 12–13.)

60 Ibid., docs. 15ff., and 1, No. 2, docs. 35ff. The War Minister's cable requesting Kemal's immediate return (June 6) was followed by a postscript from the head of the General Staff's first section, indicating that British pressure was at work (doc. 19); Kemal's dilatory reply three days later referred to lack of coal and gasoline (doc. 20). That there was continued collusion between Kemal and the War Office is clearly indicated by the opening passage of the first cable which the new War Minister, Ali Ferid Paşa, sent Kemal on June 30: “… Since I, like you, rely on my powers of judgment, I can assert that there is no one who understands the deepest recesses of your mind as well as I do…” Ibid., (doc. 28.)

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63 The Karakol Society's leaders included Colonel Kara Vasif (cf. note 40, above), and Colonel Kemaleddin Sami, who had distinguished himself in the Caucasus campaign of 1918 and later became a brigadier general in the Kemalist forces. See Edib, Halide, op.cit., p. 21Google Scholar; Biyiklioblu, , Trakyada …, 1, p. 391Google Scholar; Tunaya, , Türkiyede …, p. 520.Google Scholar On die Mim Mim group, see Koçer, Kemal, Kurtuluş Savaşlarimizda İstanbul, İstanbul, 1946.Google Scholar The extent of the latter group's activities is indicated by a contemporary statistical résumé, published in Dagtekin, Hüseyin, “İstiklâl Savaşinda Anadolu'ya Kaçirilan Mühimmat ve Askerî Eşya Hakkinda Tanzim Edilmis Mühim Bir Vesika,” Tarih VesiKalari, n.s., 1, No. 1 (August 1955), pp. 9–15.Google Scholar

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73 On the slogans of 1913, see Biyiklioğlu, , Trakya'da, 1, pp. 66, 77, 81.Google Scholar For brilliant biographical sketches of İbrahim Aydm and İhsan Eryavuz, see Ağaoğlu, , op.cit. (note 13), pp. 112–16 and 44–61Google Scholar; note that die subject of each biography in this work is identified by a sobriquet radier than by name.

74 The impressive list of political leaders of the Republic who won their political spurs within the Young Turk movement includes two of three Presidents (Atatürk—cf. above, p. 522—and Bayar); four of ten Premiers (Okyar, Bayar, Saracoğlu, and Günaltay); Atatürk's long-time Foreign and Interior Ministers, Tevfik Rüştü Aras and şükrü Kaya; prominent newspapermen such as Yunus Nadi Abalioğlu and Falih Rifki Atay, and many others. As early as 1923 the Kemalists included in their Lausanne delegation two ex-ministers of Talât's wartime cabinet—Cavid and Mustafa şeref [özkan]. The exact relationship between Kemalists and Unionists, however, as well as the exile activities of the Unionist leaders and their attempts at a comeback, need much fuller study. Generally it is true mat those who held first rank in the CUP at best held second rank in the Kemalist movement, and vice versa. Following the 1926 assassination attempt on Kemal, a number of the surviving CUP leaders, including Cavid, Ahmed Sükrü, and İsmail Canbulat, were executed—but their trial was presided over by Ali [çetinkaya], himself one of the original Macedonian conspirators of 1908. By the 1930's many prominent surviving Unionists were allowed to return to political activity and to parliament.

75 For a pointed expression of that suspicion, see, e.g., the remark which Reçid Paşa attributes to the Sivas leader of the Freedom and Accord Party: “Mustafa Kemal Paşa keeps exerting himself to encourage the Union and Progress movement. … Enver, Talât, and the others, before their flight, selected him as their replacement and put several hundred thousand pounds at his disposal. They ordered him to go to Anatolia and to revive Unionism there…” (Op.cit., p. 31.)

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