19th May 1919: Mustafa Kemal arrives in Samsun and begins the Turkish War of Independence
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The Turkish War of Independence began when General Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Inspector of the Ottoman 9th Army and later known as Atatürk, arrived at the town of Samsun on the Black Sea ...