But due to time limitations and the fact that most of the country was under Allied control, they were elected by the Turkish National Movement members instead of the general vote.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the leader of the nationalists was serving in the train station building.
(But he transferred to a house in Çankaya district, which later on became the mansion of the Turkish presidents) The parliament was opened on 23 April 1920.
During the Greek offensive in the war, parliament asked Mustafa Kemal to be the commander of the army.
Mustafa Kemal was planning a large scale mobilization and accepted the offer on the condition that he would be authorized to exercise the power of the parliament for three months.
The first parliamentary term of Turkey was ended by the general elections held on 28 June 1923 which immediately followed the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne.