Turkish National Movement
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The Turkish National Movement is political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries (in Turkish Kuvayi Milliye or Kuvai Milliye) which resulted with the creation and shaping of the Republic of Turkey consequence of partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Turkish people with the establishment of the Turkish national movement gradually unite around the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and the authority of the Turkish Grand National Assembly set up in Ankara, and which pursued the Turkish War of Independence. Turkish War of Independence resulted in the creation and formation of the Republic of Turkey.
Turkish national movement effectively terminated the Treaty of Sèvres, and negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne with the international community and assured virtual recognition of the national borders, termed Misak-ı Milli (National Oath).
The national forces have been gathered around a progressively defined political ideology that is generally termed "Kemalism", or "Atatürkism". Its basic principles stress the Republican form of government representing the power of electorate, secular administration (Laïcité), nationalism (National), mixed economy with state participation in many of the vital sectors (as opposed to state socialism), and modernization of the country.
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