To add insult to injury, Mustafa Kemal and his unit in the armies were disbanded in November 1919.
On the 13 th of September a fire was started by Kemalist troops which eventually burnt the Armenian, Greek and European quarters of the city to the ground; the Turkish quarter was spared.
People who live with their families know that there are never short of innocent and sincere warnings from left and right.
He was soon promoted from colonel to brigadier-general and sent to fight in eastern Turkey, Syria and Palestine.
He was made Commander of the Anafartalar Group on 8th of August, 1915.
It was lunar, with years of 354 or 355 days.