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  • source= THE EASTERN QUESTION (1774-1923) (by M.S.ANDERSON, 1991)

    Chapter 12—The Peace Settlement, 1918-23: Turkey accepted the armistice of Mudros in October 1918: her representatives were compelled by the allies to sign the peace-treaty of Sevres only in August 1920. The fact that this attempt at a settlement followed the armistice only after so long a delay explains its failure and the partial defeat for the allies which that failure involved. A number of factors helped to cause the delay…This sudden burst of Turkish national feeling was the result, not of the collapse of October 1918, but of the landing Greek troops at Smyrna on 15 May 1919… This action was led by Mustapha Kemal, the outstanding figure in the history of twentieeth-century Turkey… As the strength of his position became clearer Kemal became less and less willing to compromise with his opponents… At the end of the year he moved his headquarters from Sivas to Ankara, where the nationalist members of the new parliament drew up the National Pact. This in effect repeated the declaration issued at Sivas… The march of events was now steadily strengthening Kemal and his followers.

    *(Eastern Question, vocabulary): figure:design, motive, pattern. distinction:excellence, worth  to disembark:dismount, land, come into port integrity:completeness, entirety, totality.