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
- Made by
- Turkish national movement (Anatolian resistance government); poster published in Samsun by İkbal Kitabhanesi
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Turkish National Movement
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Grand National Assembly Government
- Leader
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Event
- Turkish War of Independence
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, 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
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]
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.
