The war games and sham battles in which Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) partook in the very first years of the Republic

The aim of the thesis is to hand teh leadership and experience of Atatürk on present and to unveil the hidden history of war games and sham battles on which our knowledge is very little.In this study, 1924 İzmir War Games and Seydiköy, Ankara, Thrace and Agean sham battles have been analyzed by examining the foreign policy of Atatürk's period, his main principles, aims and the condition of Turkish Army.Throughout the study, about ten thousand of pages of resource in the archives and or the libraries of; the Presidency of History and Strategical Studies, the Presidency of General Staff, the Commandership of Land Forces, Adnan Menderes University, Başkent University, Ankara University, the Institute of the History of Revolution in Gazi University and the General Directorate of State Archives.