With the establishment of the Turkish National Movement , the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire , and the abolition of the sultanate , the Ottoman era and the Empire came to Self_motion an end Process_end , and with Atatürk 's reforms , the Turks created Creating the modern , secular nation-state of Turkey on the political front .

The number of people gathering for the first protest in front of Anıtkabir , the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Ankara , was cited Adducing as ranging from `` hundreds of thousands '' to 1.5 million people .

The events were triggered Causation by the false news that the day before , Greeks had bombed Attack the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki , in northern Greece—the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in 1881 .

Later , it was also called Name_conferral `` Melhâme-i Kübrâ '' ( equivalent to Armageddon ) by Atatürk .