Outpost Societies

Outpost Societies

Outpost Society ( _tr. Karakol Cemiyeti) were secret societal organizations outside of, yet within the Istanbul government, whose purpose was to resist the efforts of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the 1919-1923 Turkish War of Independence. [cite book|title=History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975|last=Shaw|first=Stanford J.|coauthors=Ezel Kural Shaw|year=1977|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521291666|pages=340|quote= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=M1DQooVS_oYC&pg=PA340&dq=%22Outpost+Society%22+Ottoman&sig=ACfU3U3Ja3lIZisVI60Vlx171DYNidohOA] After the Armistice of Mudros young and patriotic Ottoman officers founded secret organizations in Istanbul.Fact|date=February 2007 The aim of these organizations was to provide the revolution with loyal officers, weapons and armaments (most of which was stolen from Ottoman Army warehouses which were under the control of Allied forces during the Occupation of Istanbul).

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