Almost exactly 100 years ago, in the middle of the night between March 15 and 16, 1920, British and French forces raided the Sehzadebasi Military Barracks in Istanbul. The attack came after the adoption of the Misak-i Milli (the National Oath) in the Ottoman Parliament on January 28, 1920. It was the fire of salvation that Mustafa Kemal was burning ...