Parliamentary election in Turkey 1923

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The parliamentary election in Turkey in 1923 was a general election held in Turkey on June 28, 1923.

It was the last parliamentary election before the founding of the Republic of Turkey by the great constitutional amendment of October 29, 1923. After the sultanate had been abolished on November 1, 1922, the Turkish Republic was finally proclaimed on October 29, 1923. With the decree on the abolition of the sultanate, the parallelism to the Ottoman system, which had existed since the adoption of the Turkish constitution of 1921, was abolished.

Only the Society for the Defense of the Rights of Rumelia and Anatolia was allowed to vote on June 28, 1923 . This was renamed the People's Party ( Halk Fırkası ) on September 9, 1923 .

After the election, the Lausanne Peace Treaty was signed on July 24, 1923 , which also included the withdrawal of all foreign occupation troops. When these had withdrawn, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed on October 29, 1923 and the Kemalist Cultural Revolution began .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries , Duke University Press, page 337
  2. ^ Establishment of the Republic of Turkey (1923)
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Constitutional Law of the Republic of Turkey (1921)