Abolition of the Sultanate (1 November 1922)
The Turkish Grand National Assembly, which was established in the first years of the War of Independence (23 April 1920), besides the detached Ottoman administration, with its representatives elected from among the people, became the real representative of the will of the people, and the worn-out personal sultanate, in addition to not recognizing the Turkish Grand National Assembly, that is, the sovereignty of the nation. Then, he signed the Treaty of Sèvres, cooperated with the enemy and tried to prevent the National War of Independence with the uprisings he started. Starting on April 23, 1920, with the establishment of the state based on national sovereignty, Mustafa Kemal, who regarded it as a personal sultanate, attended the Lausanne Peace Conference of the Entente States. Upon the calls of the representatives of the Ottoman Government as well as the Ankara Government, in his speech at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on November 1, 1922, he stated that the nation was against reason and demanded the abolition of the sultanate. After the deputies supported Atatürk with passionate speeches, it was unanimously accepted that the sultanate had been abolished starting from the date of the occupation of Istanbul (16 March 1920). Mehmet VI Vahdettin, whose title of sultan was abolished with the abolition of the sultanate, applied to the British Command on 17 November and left Istanbul with a British battleship.
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