The Ottoman Government of Istanbul and the Revolution of the Twentieth in Light of the Narrative of Ottoman Archive Documents (Document analysis and translation)

This paper attempts to uncover the last remaining Ottoman documents in the archives of the Turkish Presidency, about a revolutionary event in Iraq, later called the Revolution of 1920. As the Ottoman forces withdrew from the provinces of Iraq after the events of World War I and its many agreements, it was difficult to uncover a large number of these documents. Therefore, the researcher found a limited number of them, amounting to nine documents, that can be used to determine the narrative of the Ottoman archive documents about the revolution of the twentieth Accordingly, the researcher will attempt to uncover the contents of these documents and provide an analysis of them, hoping that it will be the first building block in uncovering Turkish-Iraqi relations, and the formation of the identity of each party and their policy towards each other, shortly after the withdrawal of the Ottoman forces from the Ottoman provinces of Iraq. Emphasizing that this will be the first step in understanding how the Ottoman government of Istanbul received the 1920 Revolution by trying to look at the last remaining Ottoman documents, so that the other steps will be to coordinate with other sources and other researchers for future comparative studies opening within the local archival sources in the Ottoman provinces of Iraq. Emphasizing that the documents under study reveal something of the revolutionary situation at that time, and it is not necessary that they conduct a complete scan of the whole documents.