Today in History – 13 August

İsmet Pasha becomes the Deputy of Malatya

The Second Term, First Legislative Year of the Grand National Assembly began on August 13, 1923 and ismet Pasha assumed his place in the Assembly as the deputy of Malatya. Mustafa Kemal Pasha delivered the following speech at the opening of the Assembly:

This legislative year also coincides with a joyful period of transition in the new history of the new Turkish State. Out War of Independence of four years resulted in a kind of peace that befits the glorious fame of our nation. Once the treaty we signed in Lausanne is submitted to the approval of your National Assembly, we will have entered a free and independent realm of work in every sense. I sincerely hope that we will preserve this happy outcome, the problems outside of the Treaty of Lausanne will be resolved for certain, and that we will succeed fully in our fruitful endeavors to maintain the peace and welfare of this nation.

A day after the inauguration of the Grand National Assembly on August 14th, The 5th Council of Ministers was formed under Ali Fethi Bey (Okyar). İsmet Pasha was reappointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the last government formed before the proclamation of the Republic and held this post until November 21, 1924.