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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1921
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Turkish national movement (Anatolian resistance government); poster published in Samsun by İkbal Kitabhanesi
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- 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
- 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
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]
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.
