Association for Defence of National Rights

Anatolia and Rumeli Committee for the Defence of Rights
Anadolu ve Rumeli Müdâfaa-i Hukuk Cemiyeti
LeaderMustafa Kemal Pasha
Founded7 September 1919
Dissolved9 September 1923
Preceded byCommittee of Union and Progress (denied)
Succeeded byRepublican People's Party
HeadquartersSivas
Ankara
IdeologyTurkish nationalism
Unionism (denied)

Associations for Defence of National Rights (Turkish: Müdâfaa-i Hukuk Cemiyetleri) were regional resistance organisations established in the Ottoman Empire between 1918 and 1919 that pledged themselves to the Defence of National Rights movement. They would eventually unite into the Association for the Defence of Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia in the Sivas Congress.