Abstract:
Thanks to the influence of Nutuk, the power struggle within national struggle is either disregarded or perceived from the viewpoint of Mustafa Kemal by the Turkish historiography. In this paper, the period between 1919 – 1925 is taken into consideration from the revisionist approach which was developed by Mete Tunçay, Erik J. Zürcher and Ahmet Demirel. It was argued within this thesis that the period of 1919 and 1925 witnesses a power struggle. After displaying that the national struggle era also served as the stage of a power struggle and the purge of the opposition, this perspective was applied to the local dimension by looking at the events in Sivas.
