Vakit newspaper is among the newspapers that convey the news and articles about National Struggle, which is a turning point in Turkish political life, to its readers with a national stance. Many of the newspapers operating in this period were published in the capital Istanbul. When Mustafa Kemal Pasha started preparations for the National Struggle in Anatolia, the Istanbul press was divided into two as supporters and opponents of the National Struggle. The news and articles of Vakit, which is a pro-National Struggle and one of the newspapers operating in Istanbul under difficult conditions, are very important. Vakit newspaper, which fulfills an important responsibility especially by creating public opinion in the direction of the National Struggle in Istanbul, was closely interested in the developments of the period and shared them with its readers by making news. Vakit newspaper reacted to the occupation movements and gave news that criticized the Treaty of Sèvres, which was forced to be accepted by the Entente States. He even declared that the signing of the treaty was the national mourning day and that he stated that Turks signed his own death warrant with his own hands. In this study, the period that continued from the date when Mustafa Kemal Pasha left Istanbul and started the National Struggle to the Parliament's Lausanne Conference was handled by the Vakit newspaper axis. In this process, the occupation movements and the reflections of the foreign policy of the period on the Vakit newspaper were analyzed.
Keywords: Foreign Policy, Vakit Newspaper, National Struggle, Mustafa Kemal Pasha.
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