After the Armistice of Mondros, the militia organization Kuvâ-yı Milliye was formed by the armed people's forces with the aim of resisting after the invasion of Anatolia. The main reason why those who were against the War of Independence left their own homelands and fled to Istanbul was their being forced to give money for the needs of the volunteers, zeibeks, efes, adventurers, members of committees, demobilized officers of the Ottoman troops constituting Kuvâ-yı Milliye, formed to resist against the invasion of Greek troops progressing towards the inner parts of Anatolia. Hundreds of Anatolian people including religious men, kadis (Muslim judges), tradesmen etc. involved in activities against Kuvâ-yı Milliye by means of provoking people to revolt against Kuvâ-yı Milliye, armed actions, propagandas, publications and press in response to the fatwa issued by Shaykh al- Islam with the will of Sultan, who considered Kuvâ-yı Milliye as a resurrection against him and thus wanting to punish revolutionaries, migrated from Anatolian cities to Istanbul as they were punished or threatened by Kuvâ-yı Milliye or thought that they would be punished by them. These enemies of Kuvâ-yı Milliye believing that the only way of salvation is the sultanate that was politically collapsed and the continuation of caliphate that had lost its power and influence on the Islamic world and the policies they proposed rather than national will and sovereignty requested financial assistance and shelter from the Istanbul government. After the necessary investigations had been done by the Commissariat of the Board of Review, they were provided with daily or monthly financial helps under the name of Masârif-i Gayri Melhûze and a monthly salary was paid to those who had some properties in their hometowns as debt. The requests of household and capital demanders on the grounds that their houses and businesses were looted were generally not accepted. The Police Department was interested in the food and housing problems of the National Struggle fugitives, who were placed in the madrasas, inns, hotels, clubs, coffeehouses, pavilions and some clubs in Istanbul and transportation fees of those wanting to go back to their hometowns were also paid. Some of the fugitives had to return to their country early after their assistance was cut off by the government and some continued their lives. In this paper, after analyzing the information and findings to be obtained about the reasons for the escape of those who fled to Istanbul due to the oppression of the Kuvâ-yı Milliye or their hostility to the National Struggle, the hometowns they came from, the in-kind and in-cash aid of the Istanbul Government, and their places of residence in Istanbul, the meaning of their escapes for the history of the National Struggle and of the Republic of Turkey will be evaluated and interpreted.