HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR VAHIDUDDIN, THE TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE WOULD NOT HAVE OCCURRED, AND LIBERATION WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED.

“Yes; we, who were children of 14–15 at the dawn of the national resurgence and 19 at the proclamation of the Republic, have arrived at the following conclusion as the sum total of all we have seen, heard, read, and interpreted over all these years:

After the catastrophe of the First World War and the collapse of the Imperial state, the idea of first opening the field for a national resurgence in the path of securing Turkish rights belongs to Sultan Mehmed VI Vahidüddin, both before and in the person of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who led this movement. That is to say, it belongs to the very man whom the same movement accused of treason...

With absolute intellectual integrity, we place this claim at the forefront as our main thesis and consider it our duty to prove it down to the finest detail.”

Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Sultan Vahidüddin, p. 157, Büyük Doğu Publications, 4th Edition, 2012