| 17 February 1917 | Mustafa Kemal was appointed to the command of the Hicaz (Hecaz) Expeditionary Forces. |
| 7 March 1917 | Mustafa Kemal was appointed as the Deputy Commander of the 2 Army in Diyarbakir. |
| 11 March 1917 | British forces had captured Baghdad. |
| 16 March 1917 | Mustafa Kemal was appointed as the Commander of the 2 Army in Diyarbakir. |
| June 1917 | The Lightning Group of Armies was formed. |
| 27 June 1917 | Greece entered the war beside the Entente States. |
| 5 July 1917 | Mustafa Kemal was appointed to the Command of the 7 Army in Aleppo. |
| 17 July 1917 | The Russian Tsar was pulled down from the power after a revolt. The Socialists formed the Soviet Government. |
| 9 September 1917 | The Austria-Hungary Government granted Mustafa Kemal the Second Class Military Cross of Merit with War Decorations medal. |
| 20 September 1917 | Mustafa Kemal, as the Commander of the 7 Army, sent to Istanbul his historical and famous report on the state of the country and of the army. |
| 6 October 1917 | Mustafa Kemal sent a letter to Enver Pasha and informed him of his resignation from the command of 7 Army. |
| 9 October 1917 | A new revolt occurred in Russia. The Bolshevists removed the Socialists from the power and Russia withdrawn from the World War One. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded. |
| 15 October 1917 | After resigning from the 7 Army, Mustafa Kemal returned to Istanbul on leave in the position of the Commander of the 2 Army. |
| 9 December 1917 | The British captured Jerusalem. |
| 15 December 1917 | Mustafa Kemal went for a visit to Germany under the suite of the Heir Apparent Prince Vahdeddin. |
| 16 December 1917 | Mustafa Kemal received the "First Class Crossed Saber Medjidie" medal. |