The founding of the Republic of Turkey

The foundation of the Republic of Turkey was laid on April 23, 1920 with the inauguration of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) in Ankara.

It was the first step for the birth of a new state in Anatolia whose roots lay in the national war of liberation led by Mustafa Kemal, later to be given the name Ataturk – father of Turks.

The Turkish national liberation struggle began on May 19, 1919 and culminated in the liberation of Anatolia, the international recognition of modern Turkey’s borders by the Treaty of Lausanne, and the founding of the Republic of Turkey the same year on October 29, 1923.