The Burial of General Maude

The Burial of General Maude: "Ataturk realized the reforms with the leadership of the Republican People's Party (CHP), which had been established not as a party of any class or group in the society, but as a party of all the people, and these reforms were adopted by the people. A short time after the CHP was established, the first experiment for a transition to a multiparty system was made. The opponents of the secular and modernizing policies of the government, and who thought that the reforms were not compatible with the social and political structure of Turkey, including a group of commanders from the National War of Independence, such as Rauf Orbay, Kazim Karabekir and Ali Fuat Cebesoy, resigned from the CHP and established the Progressive Republican Party on 17 November 1924. Kazim Karabekir was elected as the chairman of this first opposition party. The Party was 'conservative', not 'reactionary' both regarding its program and the mentality of its founders. However, because it was the only opposition party, those whose interests were harmed by the reforms, supported this party, thus escalating the political passions. In fact, many who were against the Republic and secular developments joined this party. SOME NOTES ON KAZIM KARABEKIR PASHA (1882-1948) – Famous Turkish Commander and Writer …. In 1918, he took back Erzurum and Erzincan from the Armenians and the Russian army and he drew away British Forces by occupying Iranian Azerbaijan and the regions where Armenians lived..To rescue Sarikamis and Kars under Armenian occupation he defeated the Armenians in November 15, 1920"