April 23: National Sovereignty and Children's Day: Anniversary of the establishment of ‘Turkish Grand National Assembly’

April 23 is National Sovereignty and Children's Day. It commemorates the day on which the first Grand National Assembly, or republican parliament, met in 1920. It means that we did not accept the treaties that were signed by the Sultan. There were parlementers from every part of the country and they said their opinions about the country. So they srarted to rule the country.

This day is celebrated as the children festival every year. This is the only children festival in the world. So children from different parts of the world are invited to come to Turkey to join in the celebrations for the festival.

Students celebrate the festival at school. I they want,children go to stadium to watch the festival display. Folk dancers dance traditional folk dances.