Atatürk's Visits to Kayseri

Abstract

In his first official report dated May 22, 1919, after Mustafa Kemal Pasha went to Samsun to start the Turkish National Struggle Movement on May 19, 1919, on the way of establishing a National State; He declared that the Turkish Nation would not want foreign protection, and that this sentence, which was the basis for the establishment of our National Struggle and Republic, was announced to all friendly enemies. "The nation is united and has chosen the principle of domination and the sense of Turkishness." In his conversation with the Basins on 26 May 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha said: "We will never be hopeless and we will save our country." He invited the Turkish Nation to national struggle against internal and external enemies. With the notification he sent from Havza to civil servants and commanders, he demanded national demonstrations against the occupation movements and especially the occupation of İzmir by the Greeks and that these demonstrations should be announced to the Turkish and the world public by telegraphs. From this sentence; A telegram originating from the Basin on 28 May 1919 was brought to Kayseri with the signature of "Army Inspector Mustafa Kemal". Kayseri people immediately followed this historical order of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who wanted to hold national rallies on the way of protesting the wire and protest of İzmir's occupation and started an attempt to hold a rally. However, the Kayseri Governor of the time did not allow this national initiative, and so, despite the open air rallies in many parts of the country to curb the invasion of İzmir by the Greeks, the Kayseriians were tried to be deprived of these national excitements. However, the people of Kayseri were not left behind to participate in the joint reaction of the Turkish Nation by revealing their national excitement, which was awakened against the invasion of İzmir, at a meeting held in Aynalı Gazino in the Kiçikapı district.