As a member of Hürriyet ve İtilaf Party (Liberal Entente) İbrahim Hakkı Bey left Turkey in 1913 for Egypt due to the authoritarian policies of İttihat ve Terakki Party. He came back to İstanbul after the First World War, when the İttihat ve Terakki members left the power and escaped from İstanbul. He was appointed to İzmit as a governor. During his governorship (1920-1921), due to weakness of both the İstanbul and Ankara governments, he took the control of the town under his rule, and his relationship with the Ottoman government was broken down. With the capture of İzmit by the Ankara forces he left İzmit with the Greek forces and worked with them to organize a congress in order to establish an autonomous state in Western Anatolia i...