One of the main discussions about the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and the signing of the Lausanne Agreement is the position of the US during and after the Turkish National Struggle and its perception of Turkish Nationalists. Because the US did not have an official consulate and representative in the Ottoman State since 1917, the relations and connections between the Americans, either representing the American government or acting as independent journalists, and businessmen were carried out at on an informal basis. American authors, diplomats, journalists, Mission staff and travellers were very active in the country between the years 1918 and 1922. There are dispatches, memoirs, newspaper articles and notes sent from Turkey to the US by these individuals which will help us understand how the Americans perceived Turkey, the Turkish nationalists, and the possibility of a “mandate regime” for the country by the US. Although the official reports from King-Crane Commission and Harbord Commission are very well-known and are considered as the roadmap showing US policy towards Turkey during that period, there are other dispatches, memoirs, journal articles and reports below that affected the US policy by forming the American public opinion. One of these is the dispatches sent by American journalists (Constantine Browne of the Chicago Tribune and Clarence Streit of Philadelphia Public Ledger) to the US during this period. Other articles published in important journals (Current History, Asia, The Outlook, Literary Digest, Contemporary Review, World’s Work, North American Review, Nation, American Review of Reviews, Living Age, Fortnightly Review, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic Monthly and Quarterly Review) which were issued in the US during this period are also relevant to this paper. In addition to that, the reports and memoirs of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief- The American Committee for Relief in the Near East (ACRN) - The Near East Relief) members in Turkey shed light on this issue. This paper aims to find answers to some questions such as: “Although not officially acknowledged, did the proposal sent by a group of Turkish intellectuals to the US President Wilson in 1919 about the formation of a de-facto mandate regime in Turkey with American assistance shape the relations between the two countries?” and “Was there actual American assistance to the Turkish nationalists during the Turkish War of Independence?”.