Today, the poor people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have stood up. This is how we became the Turkish Nation. The poor of Anatolia and Thrace stood up, won an unprecedented victory, and made history. We defeated them with our heroic men, known as ignorant, who were despised because they knew nothing but plowing and herding animals. We defeated them with our heroic women who marched into the darkness with their chador. We defeated them not with nuclear warheads, but with our heroes carrying bullets in their laps with their shalwar and headscarves. We defeated the imperialists not with fictional heroes produced in the studios, but with our heroes with patched cardigans and holes in their sandals. “We Defeated Imperialism With Our Heroes in Sandals and Shalwars” The leader of India's liberation struggle, Gandhi, said, "We thought the British were God until the Turks' victory." How did we defeat the "the single toothed beast called civilization" that Mehmet Akif pointed out in our National Anthem? The victory of August 30 gave hope, courage, and determination to all oppressed nations. The oppressed nations of yesterday are hitting imperialism one by one today! The victory of August 30 continues in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Libya, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, which is defeating imperialism today.Īfghanistan, on the front line of the struggle against imperialism today, gives hope to the oppressed nations, just as Turkey did 99 years ago. There are more sibling nations that will attain their independence and freedom.”Īnd today imperialism is being perished and destroyed. Just as I see the day dawning today, I see the awakening of all Eastern nations from afar. “August 30th Lives in Countries That Defeat Imperialism”Ītatürk also pointed to this day by saying in 1933, “Look at the sun that will rise from the east now. The glorious victory that we defeated the imperialist armies under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 99 years ago and gave hope to the oppressed nations is not a memory left in history. There are our soldiers’ bayonets based on the will of our nation behind our victory. Our Revolutionary Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was pointing to the force that created the victory and the power behind it, by saying, "The Armies of the Grand National Assembly, your first target is the Mediterranean, forward!" The revolutionary GNAT government and armies established in 1920 mobilized the Turkish nation with the slogan "Independence or Death", defeated the Western imperialists who were thought to be the empire on which the sun never sets, and became the vanguard of the oppressed who stood up in the East. “There Are Our Soldiers’ Bayonets Behind August 30th!” We are addressing to our nation from a day of victory.Īugust 30th is the victory day of the Turkish nation.
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