Mustafa Subhi was a Turkish correspondent and internationalist who protested against WW1. In 1914 he was exiled in Sinop city, fled to Russia but was extradited to the Urals by tsarist government as a Turkish citizen. In the Urals he joined Bolshevik party in 1915. After the revolution he organized the Congress of the Turkish Left Socialists (mainly out of released Turkish POWs in Russia). In 1918-1919 was a commissar of Turkish detachment in the Red Army. In 1919 attended the First Congress of the Third International as the delegate for Turkey. At the First Congress of Communist Party of Turkey, founded in Baku on 10 September 1920, Comraded Subhi was elected its chairman and soon went to Anatolia to start revolution. In Turkey their group met a hostility from Turkish nationalists and had to leave the country onboard a ship, where all were murdered.
‘There is need to provide army service area in order to establish links between the partisan troops in various locations of Anatolia and there is need to establish Military-Revolution Committee so as to strengthen this movement. This organization is going to be independent; but our organization will guide it. All the mission of Military-Revolution Committee of Turkey will concentrate on the direction of progression and preservation of the movement of social revolution both in Soviet Russia and worldwide. It will prove useful for Anatolian movement against English – French occupiers, for the spread of this movement throughout the Caucasus and for the organization of Soviet power in those places. Military-Revolution Committee of Turkey taking control of all the duties in Anatolia by means of making use of the first opportunity, will build Socialist Turkey and run towards the aim of joining hands with neighbor Soviet Russia’.
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