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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
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Eurasian sea northeast of the Mediterranean
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Interwar conflict in Turkey, 1919–1923
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