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REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION · 30 AUGUST 2026
The First Assembly
A Quest Centuries in the Making
The past seems more orderly than it was because we know its outcome.Mehmet Akif Çakmak
144 pages · Documentary novel‘O Turkish youth!’
A vigilance carried from the past into the present
The Opening Address creates a path between the young reader and history; the Introduction carries the long, discontinuous memory of the assembly idea to the threshold of 1920. Historical photographs and documents accompany the complete translated text.
SIX CHAPTERS · ONE HISTORICAL AXIS
The book’s architecture
100 QUESTIONS FROM THE BOOK
The First Assembly in questions
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COMPLETE PDF · PAGE-BY-PAGE READING
Digital reading desk
Preparing the reading desk…
OFFICIAL RECORD · RECOLLECTION · HORIZON
The world beyond Ankara
BACK COVER
In their own time
In a petition written in old age, Kurban left two sentences: ‘I myself am poor. But I am beholden to no one.’ His words told of his poverty; the forty-eight years in which he claimed no veteran’s pension told of his freedom from expectation.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
The First Assembly:
A Quest Centuries in the Making
Mehmet Akif Çakmak- Genre
- Documentary novel
- First edition
- 23 April 2017, Istanbul
- Current edition
- Revised and expanded, 30 August 2026
- Pages
- 144
- Period
- 1920–1923
- ISBN
- 978-605-67383-2-6
- Edition history
- First editionEarlier edition
- Revised and expanded editionCurrent edition
- Persistent identifiers
Internet Archivearchive.org/details/aynet-2026-en ↗︎
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Çakmak, M. A. (2026). The First Assembly: A Quest Across the Centuries · Documentary Novel. AYNET. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22695335