Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk related posts
May 19
May 19 is the annual national holiday in Turkey to memorialize the start of the Turkish War of Independence.
On May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk arrived in Samsun to start the liberation efforts. Turkish nation united with the leadership of Ataturk, fought for the independence and on October 29, 1923 The Grand National Assembly proclaimed [...]
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the most important statesmen of the twentieth century. He was an outstanding military officer of the Ottoman Empire, he became the leader of a national war of independence and then the builder of a war-torn country into a new, modern state. He drew a path for national independence for nations under foreign encroachment. He aimed at his country’s attaining the standards of contemporary civilization, which he idealized as a true progress for humanity. His conviction in this secular ideal for human progress guided his deeds and his doings in the making of the modern Turkish nation. His biography is thus written and read along with the history of the emergence of the Republic of Turkey. http://www.cankaya.gov.tr/eng_html/ata.htm«
Remembering Ataturk
On November 10, 1938, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an army Officer, revolutionary statesman and the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President died at the Dolmabahce Palas in Istanbul at the age of 57.
He was one of the greatest leader of all times respected by the whole world. He was very succesfull army [...]
Ataturk’s Address to the Turkish Youth
Turkish Youth!
Your first duty is to project and preserve the Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic forever . This is the very foundation of your existence and your future.
This foundation is your most precious treasure. In the future, too, there may be malovelent people at home and abroad, who wish to deprive you of this [...]
Who is Ataturk
Atatürk stands as one of the world’s few historic figures who dedicated their lives totally to their nations.
He was born in 1881 (probably in the Spring) in Selanik, then an Ottoman city, now in Greece. His father, Ali Riza, a customs official turned timber merchant, died when Mustafa was still a boy. His mother, Zubeyde, [...]