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title: 'Halâskârân-ı İslâm (Saviours of Islam): National Struggle poster of Mustafa Kemal and fourteen commanders'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/halaskaran-i-islam-national-struggle-poster-1921/
description: A colour lithograph under the banner 'Halâskârân-ı İslâm' shows a woman draped in a crescent-and-star flag, dagger in hand, pointing to a map labelled…
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# Halâskârân-ı İslâm (Saviours of Islam): National Struggle poster of Mustafa Kemal and fourteen commanders

A colour lithograph under the banner 'Halâskârân-ı İslâm' shows a woman draped in a crescent-and-star flag, dagger in hand, pointing to a map labelled 'Misak-ı Millî' (National Pact). Two soldiers with fixed bayonets flank her; a central portrait of Mustafa Kemal and thirteen captioned commander portraits ring her, so the flag, the woman and the generals all stand for the cause.

- **Date:** 1921
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Turkish national movement (Anatolian resistance government); poster published in Samsun by İkbal Kitabhanesi
- **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa)
- **Country:** [Turkish National Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=turkish-national-movement)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Grand National Assembly Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=grand-national-assembly-government)
- **Leader:** [Mustafa Kemal Ataturk](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=mustafa-kemal-ataturk)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Religion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=religion)
- **Event:** [Turkish War of Independence](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=turkish-war-of-independence)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hal%C3%A2sk%C3%A2r%C3%A2n-%C4%B1_%C4%B0sl%C3%A2m_afi%C5%9F.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Poster public domain (pre-1931, Ottoman-era); museum photo CC BY-SA 4.0 per Commons Photograph by Cobija, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; poster held by Samsun City Museum

## Text on the object

Original (Ottoman Turkish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
خلاصكاران اسلام

[cartouche under the map:] ميثاق ملّى

[portrait captions, as read, left column top to bottom:] رؤوف بك / عصمت پاشا / كاظم پاشا / رفعت پاشا
[right column top to bottom:] فوزى پاشا / كاظم قره بكر پاشا / نورالدين پاشا / يعقوب شوكت پاشا
[bottom row, left to right:] [illegible] عزالدين پاشا / فخرى پاشا / فخرالدين پاشا / جواد پاشا / خالد پاشا
[central top portrait: no caption]

[colophon, bottom left:] ناشرى: اقبال كتبخانهسى صاحبى حسين
[colophon, bottom right:] مطبعهٔ [illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Saviours of Islam

[cartouche:] National Pact (Misak-ı Millî)

[portrait captions, left column:] Rauf Bey / İsmet Pasha / Kâzım Pasha / Refet Pasha
[right column:] Fevzi Pasha / Kâzım Karabekir Pasha / Nureddin Pasha / Yakup Şevki Pasha
[bottom row:] [illegible] Izzeddin Pasha / Fahri Pasha / Fahrettin Pasha / Cevat Pasha / Halid Pasha

[colophon, left:] Publisher: İkbal Kitabhanesi, proprietor Hüseyin
[colophon, right:] Printed at the press of [illegible]
```

Read from a 1280 px view of a museum photograph taken through glass; the small caption and colophon lettering is only partly legible and the spellings of several names (especially the bottom row) are FRAME's best reading, not a checked transcription. The map's place-names are too small to read. Translation is literal, machine-made, and not checked by a fluent reader.

[← Bielschowitz 1-Mark plebiscite note: "Mörderbuben und Banditen" (Upper Silesia, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bielschowitz-plebiscite-notgeld-1921/) [Salzburg 20-Kronen "Anschluss" voucher (1921) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salzburg-anschluss-voucher-20-kronen-1921/)

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