Turkey on Thursday will celebrate the centesimal 100th day of remembrance of the foundation of its grand national Assembly or parliament likewise as National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.
Established on April 23, 1920, the grand national Assembly of Turkey sealed the way to the foundation of the Republic of Turkey.
This makes its foundation one of the most important steps in the history of Turkey’s liberation struggle.
On March 19, 1920, circular, Ataturk announced that a new extraordinary parliament would be based in Ankara.
84 members of the dissolved parliament and different members who would later be elective took part in the new country’s 1st parliament.
Ataturk remarked in his circular declaring the foundation of the grand national Assembly on April 22, 1920, that it’d be “the highest degree wherever all civil and military authorities and therefore the entire nation can take orders.”
On April 23, 1920, the first parliament was founded in central Ulus district of Ankara.
