Mustafa Kemal Pasha in the Battle of Nablus: Accusations and Facts

The Battle of Nablus (Megiddo) is the last battle that occurred, during World War I, between the Ottoman armies under the command of the Yildirim Army Group led by General Liman von Sanders and the British forces (The Egyptian Expeditionary Force) led by General Edmund Allenby. Due to the serious defeat of the Ottoman army against the British army, the rule of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine ended with this battle. The military troops of the Ottoman State withdrew until the north of Aleppo which had a significant effect on the loss of Syria. MustafaKemal Pasha participated in this significant Battle of Nablus as the Commander of the Seventh Ottoman Army and suffered defeat in the battle. For years, anti-Atatürk groups in Turkey have argued, both orally and in writing that, Mustafa Kemal Pasha was mainly responsible for the defeat of Nablus. These arguments were primarily based on Cevat Rifat Atilhan’s article titled “G？rünmeyen ？nkilap”, which was published in Büyük Do？u Magazine in 1950. In this research, the accusations and claims against Mustafa Kemal Pasha are presented and it is revealed, based on the information available in literature and the texts written by Atilhan in 1918 that; they do not conform to the facts, indeed