However, the real possessor of the victory was Ankara Government. Therefore, Ankara delegates did not take part in Ottoman delegation and formed another team to defend the national ideal. So much that Ottoman head delegate Grand Vizier Tevfik Pasha had to leave his talk order to the representatives of Ankara Government. As a result of these developments, States of Entente had to prepare a new peace proposal. As a result of the foreign credit gained by the national government thanks to 1st İnönü victory, Moscow Agreement was signed with Soviet Russia on 16 March 1921. Some peace talks took place in London with France and Italy.
However, Greeks did not learn anything from this defeat and repeated their advance from the same fronts on 23 March 1921. On 27 March 1921, the enemy assaults beginning with the assault of Greeks to İnönü positions were stopped just as in the 1st one. On 31 March 1921, as a result of counter-assault by Western front forces, the Greek began to withdraw. At last, on 1 April 1921, they had to leave the battlefield leaving thousands of bodies behind.
So, another achievement was made in Western front against the enemy, which is called 2nd İnönü Victory. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, in his congratulating telegram to İsmet Pasha, said: There , you did defeat not only the enemy, but also the bad fortune of the nation!. In early July of 1921, Greeks prepared for a new assault against Turks by permanently landing forces to Anatolian territories to realize Sèvres Agreement. At last, this general assault by the enemy started by reinforced forces along the whole Western Front on 10 July 1921. As the operation progressed, violent conflicts between Turkish forces and Greek forces took place in some places.
Nevertheless, Greeks, who were superior in terms of both munitions, and labor force as well as in number occupied many places. Afyon, Eskişehir, Kütahya, Bilecik were conquered by the enemy one after another. Upon such anxious developments in the front, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Chairman of Turkish Parliament went to the Western Front Headquarters in Karacahisar from Ankara on 18 July 1921. Upon reinforced Greek advance, he understood the need to determine a new strategy to prevent further losses for the Turkish army with limited possibilities under the conditions of the day and issued the following order to the Front Commander İsmet Pasha:
After gathering the army in the north and south of Eskişehir, we have to put a distance between us and the enemy, so as to compile and strengthen the army. Therefore, it is appropriate for us to withdraw as far as the eastern shore of Sakarya!. This strategy was executed and the Turkish army in the western front withdrew to the southern shore of Sakarya River completely on 25 July 1921. This decision was a very fitting attitude in terms of war management.
As a matter of fact, resistance of our diminished forces for a long time in the held positions would result in bigger losses. In conflicts called Kütahya-Eskişehir Wars in our Revolution History which resulted in our withdrawal to the east of Sakarya, our army suffered many casualties before the enemy forces 2 times greater in number compared to our army and 40.000 of our armed forces were eliminated both as casualties and losses during these conflicts and withdrawal. In addition, our loss of vehicle and munitions was very big.
The board of ministers, in these days of withdrawal to the eastern bank of Sakarya, reached a decision that the government center be transferred to Kayseri from Ankara as a measure for a new Greek assault; however, it was necessary that this decision be approved by the Parliament. The decision of the government was disclosed in a secret session of the Parliament. The parliament got very excited: Did we come here to escape or to fight with the enemy? The representatives of the nation did not accept surrounding Ankara without war; the objective was to fight untl the last hill. Upon these exciting talks, the Parliament decided to defend Ankara contrary to emptying, and performance of required preparations for this.
The leaders of National Fight, in particular Ataturk, never lost their belief that the enemy would be defeated at last in spite of all these hardships and provisional withdrawal. Mustafa Kemal Pasha said the Greek army will be exhausted in a short time and will become destructible. However, the most important condition of success was that everybody believed in this result and directed their all material and moral power toward defending the country.