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    Kuvâ-yi Milliye. The Kuva-yi Milliye were the first armed groups to defend the Turks and Muslims' rights in Anatolia and Rumelia. The Kuva-yi Milliye...
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    The Kuvâ-yi İnzibâtiye (Ottoman Turkish: قوای انضباطیه, lit. 'Forces of Order'; Turkish: Hilafet Ordusu, lit. 'Caliphate Army') was an army established...
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    known as Kuva-yi Milliye (national forces), which were soon joined by Ottoman soldiers, bandits, and disaffected farmers. Most Kuva-yi Milliye bands were...
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    Government of the Grand National Assembly commanded the army known as Kuva-yi Milliye ("National Forces"). After the war and victory over the monarchist...
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    of Sheikh Mahmud and his exile to Kuwait, the first period of the Kuva-yi Milliye movement in Sulaymaniyah in 1919 ended. After this, resistance efforts...
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  • Raid on Erbeyli (category Kuva-yi Milliye)
    raids. Sıtkı Aydınel: Güneybatı Anadolu'da Kuvâ- Milliye harekâtı (Engl.: Operations of the Kuva-yi Milliye in southwestern Anatolia), Vadi Yayınları...
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    Çerkes Ethem (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    to the greater good of Anatolia". The forces were a branch of the Kuva-yi Milliye, and played a big role in significantly slowing down the Greek army...
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  • that the "Ankara government" declared illegal. In the ensuing war, Kuva-yi Milliye irregular militia defeated the French forces in the south, and undemobilized...
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    straits. The Army of the Caliphate was defeated by the Kuva-yi Milliye. Although the Kuva-yi Milliye was regarded as the first step of resistance in the...
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    Mümin, (b. 1892, İzmir, d. 24 January 1948, İzmir) was a member of the Kuva-yi Milliye, the irregular Turkish nationalist forces that fought in the Turkish...
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    Malgaç Raid (category Kuva-yi Milliye)
    gozumuzaydin.com (in Turkish) Sıtkı Aydınel: Güneybatı Anadolu'da Kuvâ- Milliye harekâtı, Vadi Yayınları, 2008, page 156. (in Turkish) YORUK ALI EFE...
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  • Akbaş arms depot raid (category Kuva-yi Milliye)
    18389; 26.35639 The Akbaş arms depot raid was one of the actions of the Kuva-yi Milliye during the Turkish War of Independence. Led by the militia leader Köprülü...
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    Ali Kılıç (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Aide-de-camps of Nuri Pasha in the Army of Islam (Ottoman Empire) Kuva-yi Milliye of Marash, Aintab and its area Battles / wars First World War Turkish...
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  • Yörük Ali Efe (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    during the Turkish War of Independence. He was an important leader in Kuva-yi Milliye of the Aegean Region. After the declaration of republic he resigned...
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    irregular units (Kuva-yi Milliye, i.e. the National Forces) in the years 1919 and 1920. The Turks established their regular army (Kuva-yi Nizamiye), i.e...
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    Celâl Bayar (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third president of Turkey from 1950 to...
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  • organizations. Balıkesir is also known as the "City of Kuvâ-yi Milliye" as it was the city where Kuvâ-yi Milliye started. On May 16, 1919, the people of Balıkesir...
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  • Battle of Tellidede (category Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Oğuz Gülcan, 2007, page 260. Sıtkı Aydınel: Güneybatı Anadolu'da Kuvâ- Milliye harekâtı, page 169. Ajun Kurter: Türk Hava Kuvvetleri tarihi, Hava...
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  • with the Late Ottoman or Early Republican irregular forces, known as: Kuva-yi Milliye. Those most committed Unionists who would enforce the Central Committee's...
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    the Greek army and forces of the nascent Turkish National Movement (Kuva-yi Milliye) during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. The Turkish forces pushed...
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    Ali Saip Ursavaş (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Command, Kozan Gendarmerie Command Urfa Gendarmerie Command, Urfa Area Kuva-yi Milliye, member of the Konya Independence Tribunal, Independence Tribunal of...
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    The Battle of the Gediz was fought between the Turkish Kuva-yi Milliye forces and the Greek forces near the Gediz River in the city of Gediz. The Turkish...
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    Muzaffer Kılıç (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Ahmet Muzaffer Kılıç (1897–1959) was a Turkish soldier during the Turkish Liberation War, a member of the Turkish National Movement, and a politician of...
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    of Constantinople, the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, the Kuva-yi Milliye movement led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the establishment processes...
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    Hayriye National Forces – Kuva-yi Milliye Ordered Forces – Kuva-yi Nizamiye Traveling Forces (Green Army Organization) – Kuva-yi Seyyare Black Arm Association...
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    Greek Summer Offensive (category Kuva-yi Milliye)
    southern region of the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Region from the Kuva-yi Milliye (National Forces) of the provisional Turkish national movement government...
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    government announced the creation of a new army, the Kuva-i Inzibatiye, to put down the Nationalist Kuva-yi Milliye. This army was to be composed of 1,000 unemployed...
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    Cevat Abbas Gürer (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Mehmet Cevat Abbas Gürer (1887 – July 4, 1943) was an officer of the Ottoman Army, the Turkish Army, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. Ebedi...
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    Arslan Toğuz (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Rank Baş Komiser Commands Society for the Defence of Rights in Marash Kuva-i Milliye of Marash Battles/wars Turkish War of Independence Franco-Turkish War...
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  • Yakup Satar (category Members of Kuva-yi Milliye)
    Yakup Satar (11 March 1898 – 2 April 2008) was a Turkish soldier who is believed to have been the last Ottoman veteran of the First World War. He died...
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