Istanbul resistance movement

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The Istanbul resistance movement was a clandestine nationalist organization that opposed Allied occupation in Istanbul during and after World War I, helping to lay the groundwork for the Turkish War of Independence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkish nationalist organization
clandestine nationalist organization
resistance movement
composition civilian nationalists
intellectuals and professionals
sympathetic Ottoman officers
conflict Allied occupation authorities in Istanbul
surface form: Allied occupation of Istanbul

Turkish War of Independence
contributedTo coordination of nationalist activities in occupied Istanbul
organizational groundwork for the Turkish War of Independence
country Ottoman Empire
endTime early 1920s
hasGoal defense of Ottoman–Turkish sovereignty
end of Allied occupation of Istanbul
support for Turkish War of Independence
historicalPeriod Turkish War of Independence
Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire
surface form: late Ottoman Empire
ideology Turkish nationalism
anti-imperialism
language Turkish
location Istanbul
movementType urban resistance
natureOfOrganization illegal under occupation authorities
secret
operatingArea Istanbul
opposed Allied Powers of World War I
surface form: Allied Powers

Allied occupation of Istanbul
opposedBy Allied military authorities
Istanbul-based Ottoman government
partOf Turkish nationalist forces
surface form: Turkish National Movement
region Marmara Region
relatedTo Felâh group
Karakol Society
Mim Mim Group
significance facilitated flow of information and resources to Anatolian front
helped maintain nationalist networks in occupied capital
startTime 1918
status defunct
supported Ankara-based nationalist government
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
usedMethod clandestine organization
covert communications
intelligence gathering
propaganda
smuggling of arms and volunteers

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Halide Edib Adıvar participatedIn Istanbul resistance movement