With unequalled passion , Kemal condemned the attacks on and massacres of the empire 's Armenians during the First World War and inveighed against the Ittihadist chieftains as the authors of that crime , relentlessly demanding their prosecution and punishment . In an 18 July 1919 issue of the '' Alemdar '' newspaper , Ali Kemal Bey wrote : " ... our Minister of Justice has opened the doors of prisons . Do n't let us try to throw the blame on the Armenians ; we must not flatter ourselves that the world is filled with idiots . We have plundered the possessions of the men whom we deported and massacred ; we have sanctioned theft in our Chamber and our Senate . Let us prove that we have sufficient national energy to put the law into force against the heads of these bands who have trampled justice underfoot and dragged our honor and our national life through the dust . " In a 28 January 1919 issue of the '' Sabah '' newspaper , Kemal Bey wrote , " Four or five years ago a historically singular crime has been perpetrated , a crime before which the world shudders . Given its dimensions and standards , its authors do not number in the fives , or tens , but in the hundreds of thousands . In fact , it has already been demonstrated that this tragedy was planned on the basis of a decision reached by the Central Committee of Ittihad . " He campaigned also against the Kemalist movement . Along with other conservatives serving under the Sultan in Istanbul , Kemal also set up an organisation known as the İngiliz Muhipler Cemiyeti ( " The Anglophile Society " ) , which advocated British protectorate status for Turkey . This , combined with his past opposition to the Committee of Union and Progress , made him anathema to the nationalist movement gathering strength in Ankara and fighting the Turkish War of Independence against the attempts between Greece and the Entente Powers to partition Anatolia
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