DOI: 10.36347/sjet.2018.v06i12.009

Pages: 424-431

After the Ottoman Empire was defeated in the First World War, the Ottoman Empire was occupied by the Alliance states especially the city of Istanbul and all the regions of Anatolia except the Central Anatolia. The war of independence of Turkey, which started on May 19, 1919 by the landing of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his close friends to Samsun, ended on August 30, 1922 after the signing of Treaty of Lausanne by all parties and recognizing Turkey as an independent new state. The new state's first elected as president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, put into force a series of reforms in order to realize his dreams of a modern, westernized, industrialized state with a modern living conditions and standards. The first decision taken in relation to Ankara, which was selected as the new capital of the state, was to set some ideas and start of works to convert the city to be the center of the Republic of Turkey's administration, finance, culture and industry.