Middle East in WWI Pt 17 Mustafa Kemal Mustafa Kemal. Leaving Istanbul under the ruse of disarming Ottoman forces in the Anatolian interior, Colonel Mustafa Kemal lands at the Black Sea port of Samsun on May 19, 1919. He rallies patriotic Turks in a nationalist front and solidifies his efforts at two separate conferences, one at Sivas and the other at Erzurum. Kemal works ceaselessly in building a new army and government to preserve the Turkish nation. Show Less >>