Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, alongside government officials and party leaders, visited Anıtkabir, the resting place of the republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. 

"The spirit of unity and solidarity that enabled the national struggle to be crowned with the foundation of the Republic guides us in this process and illuminates our path like a beacon. Under the leadership of confident and competent cadres, the Republic of Turkey continues its glorious journey from the past to the future in a much more determined manner than ever before," Erdoğan wrote in Anıtkabır's diary.

Meanwhile, Istanbul Governor Davut Gül and Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu joined a parade in Istanbul.

The Turkish War of Independence started with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's landing on the city of Samsun on the Black Sea coast in 1919.

Anatolia's liberation from occupation opened a new chapter in Turkish history as the new country was recognized under the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.