In The Nablus Battle Mustafa Kemal

The Palestine front has been the only and longest lasted battle which Ottoman Empire had the most casualties in the First World War. In phases of up to the Nablus Battle , the First and Second Channel Operations, First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza, Jerusalem War, the First and Second Jordan (Seria) Battles had took place. In 5 July 1917, Mustafa Kemal was appointed as the commander of 7th Army Forces of newly constituted in the Palestinian Yildirim Armies Group; however he had conflict with the commander of this group, Marshal Falkenhayn, who was the former Chief of General Staff of Germany ,and so, in 2 October 1917 he resigned and returned back to Istanbul. In August 5 1918, as the situation of the Palestinian front got more critical, Mustafa Kemal was appointed as the commender of 7th Army again by Sultan VI. Mehmet Vahdettin himself. The United Kingdom had planned to get accurate results in the Palestinian Front in order to exclude the Ottoman Empire from the First World War. In the Palestinian Front, from west to east the 8th ,7th and 4th Armies of the Ottoman was deployed. The British Army which was under command of General Allenby who was assigned to Palestinian Front from European Front; began to attack on 19 September 1918 and on the same day they succeeded in splitting the Yildirim Army Group front from the 8th Army region. At he end of this battle named Nablus Battle in the history 8th Army of Cevat Pasha, 4th Army of Cemal Pasha was annihilated, 7th army of Commander Mustafa Kemal had massive casualties and Palestine was lost. The rebelled Arabs had cooperation with the British Army and continued to follow to the direction of the north and also they invaded Jordan and Syria. Mustafa Kemal had generated forces and had stopped the British Army and the Arabs in the north of Aleppo; and did not let them to got in to Anatolia for the time being. However, the executives of the Ottomans considered the soft belly of Anatolia was under threat and signed the Mondoros Armistice on 30 October 1918.