After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, British troops occupied Constantinople and allies occupied various parts of the empire.
Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) began organizing resistance to the occupation.
Halide Edib gained a reputation in Istanbul as a "firebrand and a dangerous agitator."
She was one of the main figures of Empire to give speech to thousands of people protesting the Occupation of Izmir by Greece during the Sultanahmet demonstrations.
The British tried to exile her and several other leaders to Malta in March 1920.

Halide Edib escaped to Anatolia together with her husband to join the Turkish National Resistance.
On the road to Ankara she met with Yunus Nadi, another journalist who had decided to join the Nationalists.
In a meeting at the train station in Geyve, on 31 March 1920, they agreed on the importance of informing the international public opinion about the developments regarding the Turkish War of Liberation and decided to help the national struggle by establishing a news agency.
They concurred on the name "Anadolu Ajansı".

During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) she was granted the ranks of first corporal and then sergeant in the nationalist army.
She traveled to the fronts, worked in the headquarters of İsmet Pasha, Commander of the Western Front and wrote her impressions of the scorched earth policy of the invading Greek army and the Greek atrocities in Western Anatolia in her book "The Turkish Ordeal".
After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, British troops occupied Constantinople and allies occupied various parts of the empire. Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) began organizing resistance to the occupation. Halide Edib gained a reputation in Istanbul as a "firebrand and a dangerous agitator." She was one of the main figures of Empire to give speech to thousands of people protesting the Occupation of Izmir by Greece during the Sultanahmet demonstrations. The British tried to exile her and several other leaders to Malta in March 1920.
Halide Edib escaped to Anatolia together with her husband to join the Turkish National Resistance. On the road to Ankara she met with Yunus Nadi, another journalist who had decided to join the Nationalists. In a meeting at the train station in Geyve, on 31 March 1920, they agreed on the importance of informing the international public opinion about the developments regarding the Turkish War of Liberation and decided to help the national struggle by establishing a news agency. They concurred on the name "Anadolu Ajansı".
During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) she was granted the ranks of first corporal and then sergeant in the nationalist army. She traveled to the fronts, worked in the headquarters of İsmet Pasha, Commander of the Western Front and wrote her impressions of the scorched earth policy of the invading Greek army and the Greek atrocities in Western Anatolia in her book "The Turkish Ordeal".
Halide Edib Adıvar