This is the story of how Turkey's parliament was founded on this day in 1920 Opinion | Hamza Karcic
The opening ceremony was timed to take place on a Friday which is the holiest day in the week for Muslims. Dignitaries and officers prayed at the Haci Bayram Veli mosque in Ankara. An iconic photograph form the opening ceremony shows dignitaries offering their prayers. Sheeps were sacrificed to inaugurate success. For success was needed in those perilous times.
British, French and Italian occupation forces in Istanbul portended what was to come. The Greek occupation of Izmir in May 1919 and the march towards thewas the trigger that mobilised resistance across the country. A full and detailed partition of Anatolia was laid out in the Treaty of Sevres in 1920.
The parliament established in Ankara was not the first parliament in Turkey but it was the first Turkish parliament. It was during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II that the first parliament was convened in 1877. The Young Turk revolution of 1908 led to the reinstitution of parliament and what is known as the second constitutional era.
On a recent trip to Ankara, I visited the building that housed the parliament founded that Friday a hundred years ago. Today, it is the War of Independence Museum . The parliament conducted its business in this building from 1920 to 1924 when it was moved to a nearby location.
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