The protocol agreed that new elections would be held that year for the Chamber of Deputies (the popularly elected lower house of the Ottoman parliament), and the Chamber would convene outside Istanbul (at the time occupied by the Allies), consider passing the resolutions of the Sivas Congress and describes the new country as "The lands which Kurds and Turks inhabit" Although it did not convene outside Istanbul as promised, the new Chamber convened on 12 January 1920 and passed the "Misak-ı Millî" (National Pact) agreed to at the Sivas and Erzurum Congresses, after which the Allies, in an effort to stamp out the nascent Turkish National Movement, forced it to dissolve and declared martial law in Istanbul.