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The Law on the Commander-in-Chief (August 5, 1921) was a regulation that determined the course of the War of Independence. The Grand National Assembly of Türkiye appointed Mustafa Kemal Pasha as Commander-in-Chief of the army and delegated certain powers of the Assembly to him for a specific period. This law was drafted in response to the need to regroup the Turkish army under a central command before the Battle of Sakarya. This authority granted to Mustafa Kemal Pasha was initially limited to t

The Great Offensive is a military operation that took place between 26 August and 18 September 1922 and constitutes the final and decisive phase of the Turkish War of Independence. This operation was not merely a victory of the Turkish forces over the Greek troops but also a historic turning point that ended the de facto occupation across a large part of Anatolia and accelerated the process of establishing the new Turkish state.The Great Offensive, the product of a year of preparations following