Today, August 30, Turkey celebrates the 101st anniversary of Victory in the Battle of Dumlupinar.
Festive events are held throughout the country, the official part of which is organized in Ankara.
In connection with the anniversary of the victory in the battle of Dumlupinar, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, together with the accompanying delegation, will visit the mausoleum of the founder of the Turkish Republic of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The attack of the Turkish army under the command of Ataturk, which began on August 26, 1922 and ended on August 30 by the defeat of the intervention troops (great offensive), went into world history as one of the greatest examples of heroism.
Soon after the end of World War I in 1919, the Entente countries, referring to the provisions of the Mudosk Time, entered the troops to Anatoly. The future of the Turkish people turned out to be at risk.
In response to the actions of interventionists in Turkey, a national liberation movement began.
After the opening of the Great National Assembly (Parliament) of Turkey in 1920, interventure countries intensified the pressure on Ataturk and its associates.
Special activity was recorded on the Western Front, where the Greek troops in 1921 advanced to the Palatla region.
Turkish residents united in order to repulse Greek interventionists.
Bloody battles in the Sakarya area lasted for 22 days. As a result, the enemy was stopped.
It took about a year to finally expel the Greeks from Turkey.
On August 26, 1922, Mustafa Kemal Pasha announced the beginning of a large-scale offensive. On the morning of August 30, 1922, he arrived at the location of the troops in the area of Zafertep Chalkey in Kuteye. So, and the battle of Dumlupinar began, which changed the course of the history of Turkey.
Greek troops were surrounded and defeated. The remaining scattered units of the Greek troops fled.