取得这一胜利之后，穆斯塔法·凯末尔再次试图通过合法途径，即借助议会，夺取权力。新一届议会选举的筹备工作已经启动，但其依据仍是旧制度，即一个隶属于哈里发政府的奥斯曼议会。然而，首相阿里·里达十分软弱，他察觉到民众正逐渐倒向穆斯塔法·凯末尔。于是他认为与之妥协才是明智之举。据此，他派遣海军大臣萨利赫帕夏前往安纳托利亚，于1919年10月18日与议会委员会举行会议，此次会议后来被称为阿马西亚会议。会议持续了数日，萨利赫帕夏成功地调和了议员与政府之间的关系。会议上首先提出并被双方立即同意的动议，是不得侵犯苏丹职位与哈里发职位。

Having achieved this victory, Mustafa Kemal attempted once again to seize power through legitimate means through parliament. Preparations for the new parliamentary elections were set in motion, but they were on the old basis, namely an Ottoman parliament subordinate to the Khaleefah’s government. However, the Prime Minister Ali Ridha was weak and he sensed people’s drift towards Mustafa Kemal. Thus he deemed it wise to come to terms with him. Accordingly he sent Salih Pasha, the Navy minister to Anatolia, where on 18th October 1919, he held with the Parliamentary Committee a meeting which became later known as the “Amasia Conference”. The conference lasted several days and Salih Pasha succeeded in reconciling between the deputies and the government. The first motion to be proposed at the conference and to be instantly agreed upon by the two parties was the “non infringement of the Sultanate and the Khilafah”.

伊斯坦布尔代表随后认可了在阿尔德鲁姆会议和锡瓦斯会议上通过的所有决议。关于解散议会委员会的问题引发了激烈争论，争论愈演愈烈后，该问题仍未得到解决，于是决定将其搁置，直到新一届议会的成员能够会面并予以解决。

The Istanbul delegate then endorsed all the resolutions adopted at the “Ardh-Rum” conference and the Sivas conference. A heated argument broke out pertaining the issue of dissolving the Parliamentary Committee, and after the debate intensified, the issue was left unsettled and it was decided that it would remain suspended until the members of the new parliament could meet to settle it.

然后穆斯塔法·凯末尔迁往安卡拉，在那里定居，并以此作为他的活动中心。人们安排了迎接他的事宜。在他预定抵达的那天早晨，当地居民很早就起来了，整座城市满怀期待地等待着。农民们离开农田，参加迎接他的活动；苦行僧们组成盛大的队伍走出城外，高举绣有尊贵古兰经文的大幅绿色旗帜。他抵达时，人们欢呼，妇女们高声呼喊，赞颂安拉至大（Takbir）的声音和欢呼声回荡四方；他作为英雄进入这座城市，并在此定居。

Then Mustafa Kemal moved to Ankara to take up residence there and to use it as his centre. Arrangements were made to greet him and on the morning of his scheduled arrival, the local residents were up early and the whole city waited in anticipation. The farmers left their farms to take part in greeting him and the dervish came out in a large procession, carrying large green banners bearing the exalted Qur’anic Verses. When he arrived people cheered, women shrilled, and chants of Takbir and acclaim reverberated; he entered the city as a hero and took up residence.

举行了新的选举,穆斯塔法·凯末尔当选为安卡拉的国会议员。随后,几位议员纷纷前往安卡拉,举行了一次预备会议,商讨他们的事务。会上提出一项建议:既然其成员已成为正式议员,便应在首都召开国会,并解散此前的会议。

Fresh elections took place and Mustafa Kemal was elected as a member of parliament for Ankara. Several deputies then flocked to Ankara and held a preliminary meeting to discuss their affairs. During the meeting, a proposal was put forward to convene parliament in the capital and to dissolve the conference now that its members had become official deputies.

然而,穆斯塔法·凯末尔始终强烈而坚决地反对这两种想法,他说:"会议必须继续进行,直到议会对正义的坚守得以显现,直到其政策变得清晰明确。"

However, Mustafa Kemal opposed both ideas vehemently and persistently by saying : “The conference must continue until the extent of parliament’s adherence to justice becomes manifest and until its policy becomes clear.

至于迁往首都，这只能被看作是纯粹的愚蠢。

As for moving to the capital, this could only be regarded as sheer idiocy.

如果你这样做，你就会落入西方敌人的掌控之中，因为英国人仍然控制着这个国家，当局会干涉你的事务，你甚至可能被逮捕。因此，议会应当在安卡拉召开，以保持其自由与独立。然而，所有议员都坚持认为议会的开幕应在首都伊斯坦布尔、在议会大厦举行，以便他们能够在国家合法统治者、穆斯林的哈里发瓦希德丁苏丹的庇护之下履行职责。对此，穆斯塔法·凯末尔保持沉默并予以接受。然而，他并未前往伊斯坦布尔，而是留在了安卡拉。在此之前，他曾与安卡拉的议员举行过一次议会会议，并向他们作出了必要的指示。他请求他们在他缺席时投票选他为议长。

If you did this, you would be under the mercy of the Western enemy, for the British are still in control of the country and the authority would interfere in your affairs, and you might be arrested. Therefore, parliament should be convened here in Ankara, so that it remains free and independent.” However, all the deputies insisted that the inauguration of parliament should take place in the capital Istanbul and in the house of parliament, so that they could be there under the wing of the legitimate ruler of the country, Sultan Wahid-ud-Deen, the Khaleefah of the Muslims. Upon this Mustafa Kemal kept silent and accepted it. However, he did not go to Istanbul but remained in Ankara. Prior to this, he had held a parliamentary meeting with the Ankara deputies and had given them the necessary instructions. He requested from them to vote for him as speaker of parliament in his absence.

1919年11月11日，议会在御前讲话（王座演说）中宣告开幕，随后进行议长选举。议员们拒绝选举穆斯塔法·凯末尔为议长，转而选出了劳夫·贝伊。

On 11th November 1919, parliament was inaugurated by a speech of the throne then the election of a speaker took place. The deputies refused to elect Mustafa Kemal as speaker and they opted for Ra’uf Beik instead.

1920年1月28日，议会批准了被称为著名的“米利盟约”（Milli Charter）的国家宪章，该宪章确认了埃尔祖鲁姆（Ardh-Rum）和锡瓦斯会议的决议。宪章要求以土耳其人为多数的所有省份实现完全独立和自由，其中包括伊斯坦布尔及其郊区（沿马尔马拉海延伸），条件是帝国各部分的命运将通过全民公投决定。

Then on 28th January 1920, parliament ratified the national charter known as the famous “Milli Charter”, which confirmed the resolutions of the “Ardh-Rum” and Sivas conferences. The charter called for the total independence and freedom of all the provinces inhabited by a Turkish majority, including Istanbul and its suburbs, stretching alongside the sea of Marmara, provided that the fate of all parts of the Empire would be decided through a referendum.

与此同时,欧洲各国通过一份正式照会通知奥斯曼政府,伊斯坦布尔及海峡必须仍处于苏丹的掌控之下。穆斯塔法·凯末尔的追随者将此视为其政策的胜利,认为可以与欧洲人就更为公平的停战条件达成协议。因此,穆斯塔法·凯末尔开始着手推翻阿里·里达帕夏的政府,并以一个彻头彻尾的民族主义政府取而代之。他坚持不懈,极力催促议员们承担这一倡议,竭尽全力,但议员们却退缩了,拒绝听从穆斯塔法·凯末尔。于是他怒不可遏,并意识到他通过合法手段夺取政权、以共和制度取代哈里发制度的计划必然注定失败。因此,他着手重新点燃叛乱,以武力夺取政权。

Meanwhile, the European countries informed the Ottoman government through an official memorandum that Istanbul and the straits must remain under the disposal of the Sultan. The followers of Mustafa Kemal interpreted this as a victory to their policy and that it would be possible to come to terms with the Europeans over fairer truce terms. Therefore, Mustafa Kemal started to work towards bringing down the government of Ali Ridha Pasha and towards replacing it by an outright nationalist government. He persisted and pressed the deputies vehemently to undertake this initiative and exhausted all his efforts, but the deputies recoiled and refused to listen to Mustafa Kemal. Thus he became enraged and realised that his plan to seize power through legitimate means and to replace the Khilafah system by a republican system was inevitably doomed to failure. Therefore, he set about rekindling the rebellion in order to seize power by force.