The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) made a statement regarding the August 30 Victory Day. The Battle of Dumlupınar, also widely known as the Great Offensive, had started on August 26, 1922, and the battle had ended on September 9, with the repulsion of the invading armies. The day has been celebrated as the Victory Day since 1926.
Reminding that the peoples of Anatolia, in poverty and misery, resisted and defeated the highest-technology armies of the imperialists back then, TKP saluted the creators of the victory, the Chief Commander Mustafa Kemal and the people who fought against the imperialist invasion.
The statement also emphasized the difference between the monarch and the victors: Sultan Vahdeddin, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, along with the rest of the monarchy, the followers of sharia, and the co-conspirators of the imperialists had no part in the victory, occupying themselves with plans to submit to the imperialists, and trying to work out how they could get a bite out of the invasion. A group of revolutionaries and the people of Anatolia, on the other hand, are the true builders of the victory.
"We won," TKP says, "and they were defeated." Specifying that Turkey is under the invasion of the same grand alliance again, TKP remarked that this is why August 30 is still relevant, and the victory must be won again, and again, until the imperialists and their co-conspirators are defeated once more.
