Ismet Inönü, the 'draft dodger'...

He entered the Military Middle School at the age of 8.

He finished Military High School at 16.

He entered the Military Academy at 17 and graduated first in his class at 19, becoming an Ottoman artillery officer.

At 22, he again graduated first in his class to become a staff officer.

Immediately after graduating, he began his duty that same year as a Staff Captain, serving as the 3rd Company Commander of the 8th Field Artillery Regiment in Edirne.

At 24, he became a Senior Captain.

At 26, he was appointed as a Staff Officer for the Yemen Provisional Forces. Due to his successes there, he was promoted to Major at 28. He served as Chief of Staff for the Ottoman Forces in Yemen.

At 29, upon the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, he was recalled to Istanbul and appointed to the 1st Branch of the General Staff Headquarters. He was subsequently assigned to the 3rd Branch.

When the Ottoman Empire declared mobilization for the World War in 1914, he was appointed to the staff of the 1st Army. He was among the staff officers of Minister of War Enver Pasha.

At 30, he became a Staff Lieutenant Colonel.

At 31, he was awarded the Silver Medal of Merit for his successes.

After serving for one year at the General Staff Headquarters, he requested a front-line assignment and became Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army on October 2, 1915. He went to the Caucasus Front.

On August 24, 1916, the Russians had advanced from the East. They had taken Erzurum and Erzincan and reached Bingöl. When 2nd Corps Commander Faik Süleyman Pasha, who was fighting on the Bingöl front, was shot in the forehead and martyred, he took over command and successfully pushed the Russians back.

At 31, he became a Colonel.

At 32, he was appointed Commander of the 4th Corps, attached to the 2nd Army.

At 33, he was appointed Commander of the 20th Corps, attached to the 7th Army in Aleppo, and subsequently to the 3rd Corps. He served on the Palestine front. He then fought against the British-Arab Allied Forces in Gaza and engaged in successful battles.

He received the Gold Medal of War for his services on the Caucasus front.

At 34, he devastated the British forces that had launched an attack on the Kafr-i Haris front in the Jordan Valley. He repelled the attack.

Also at 34, he was appointed Undersecretary of the Ministry of War.

At 35, he was appointed as a military expert to the Mudros Armistice Commission.

At 36, when Istanbul was occupied, he crossed into Anatolia. On May 3, 1920, he became Chief of the General Staff.

Also at 36, he became Commander of the Western Front.

At 37, he won the First Battle of Inönü and became a Brigadier General. He then won the Second Battle of Inönü.

In the same year, he was promoted to Major General after showing great success in the Battle of Sakarya.

At 38, he participated in the Great Offensive and immediately afterward, as a Major General, represented Turkey at the Armistice of Mudanya.

After that; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Ministry, the Presidency, and so on.

Let's call those civilian duties. Everything else was military service. Officer duties, staff work, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, military expertise, etc. And the rank of Pasha...

Who is this Pasha?

Of course, it is Ismet Inönü. Exactly 30 years of military service. But do you know what they called Ismet Inönü, who had been a soldier since the age of 8 and performed all these military duties listed above?

They called him a "draft dodger."

Former Parliament Speaker Hüsamettin Cindoruk said, while engaging in politics in the youth branches of the Democrat Party, "We used to call Inönü a draft dodger, and this public would believe it."

And this was even with the title "ISMET PASHA."

Ignorance was at that level.

Oh, beautiful Atatürk...

How beautifully he spoke 100 years ago, in 1921. It is as if he summarized today.

"Look at this pathetic mind. We are in this state today because of these outdated, closed-to-the-world, primitive minds. There is no other way; we must renew ourselves, progress, and keep up with modern civilization. And for this, we must change these frozen, stagnant, numb minds. Otherwise, even if we are saved today, we will become sacrificial lambs tomorrow, we will become prey. They will exploit us comfortably again. They will try to make us do what they cannot make us do today in the future. They will find plenty of collaborators again. This great struggle—the War of Independence—for which many of our children, as well as Lieutenant Colonel Nazım, gave their lives, will have been in vain," he said.

If you ask what state we are in 100 years later, we are exactly in this pathetic state of mind.

They said, "There are secret clauses in Lausanne," and this mind believed it,

They said, "We are going to the moon in 2023," and it believed it.

They said, "We built double roads to the moon," and they believed it.

In this country, even the President slandered with a montage video.

We have even forgotten about the draft dodger...