This made it pretty hard to recruit fresh troops, and it gave an opening for radical propagandists such as the Bolsheviks who encouraged soldiers to desert.
And thus outraged by the Treaty's terms, the emerging Turkish government almost immediately rebelled and continued fighting against the Allies for the next two years.
It is said that on his " deathbed" – that is, the place where he died – he said that he should never have surrendered and should have kept on fighting the Americans.