Ataturk‚ a Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer in the Ottoman military‚ revolutionary statesman and the first president of Turkey who was born in 1881. First he was enrolled in a traditional religious school‚ in‚1893.Then he entered a military high school where his mathematics teacher gave him the second name Kemal (meaning ‘’perfection’’).Because he excelled in academics. His original name is Mustafa Kemal‚ but in 1934 his constituents gave him the name Ataturk
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Mustafa Kemal: Muslim Modernity Mustafa Kemal (March 12‚ 1881 - November 10‚ 1938)‚ was a Turkish nationalist and political leader who was instrumental in the fall of the Ottoman sultanate and in the creation of modern Turkey‚ was also the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. Kemal devoted his life to freeing Turkey from foreign domination. Under his benevolent dictatorship as president of the republic‚ he instituted lasting reforms that earned him the
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (indeterminate‚ 1881–10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer‚ revolutionary statesman‚ and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. Atatürk became known as an extremely capable military officer by being the only undefeated Ottoman commander during World War I.[1] Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire‚ he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara‚ he defeated
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…bloody battles with various enemies … years of struggle and then‚ respected at home and abroad‚ a new country‚ a new society‚ a new state‚ and to achieve these‚ ceaseless reforms – this is‚ in a word‚ the Turkish Revolution.” Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1. Introduction Mustafa Kemal Ataturk‚ the commander of the Turkish War of Independence‚ is still considered by many Turks as their national hero and a great leader. Even after 75 years since his death‚ Ataturk’s statues are found in each town centre in
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (March 12‚ 1881 - November 10‚ 1938)‚ Turkish soldier and statesman‚ was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. He was born in the Ottoman city of Selânik (now Thessaloniki in Greece)‚ where his birthplace is the Turkish Consulate and is also preserved as a museum. In accordance with the then prevalent Turkish custom‚ he was given the single name Mustafa. His father‚ Ali Riza (Efendi) was a customs officer who died when Mustafa was a child‚ his mother was
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has been fixed in six principles or arrows‚ each signifying a target and characteristic of the reforms and was claimed to complement each other. The six arrows have become the emblem of the Republican People’s Party which was founded in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal [Atat�rk] and now the main opposition party. These are republicanism‚ secularism or laicism‚ nationalism‚ populism‚ etatism/statism and reformism/transformationism. Except for republicanism‚ all these had actually firm Ottoman roots‚ not in form
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THE MOST FAVOURITE LEADER OF TURKISH PEOPLE “MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK” İntroduction: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the first President of the Republic of Turkey and the anti-imperialist leader of Turkey until his death in 1938. Mustafa Kemal was born on‚May 19‚1881. His birth place was Salonika. He was given the name Atatürk (Father of All Turks) later. His father’s name was Ali Rıza Efendi. His mother’s name was Zübeyde Hanım. He also had a sister whose name was Makbule (Atadan). When the Ottoman
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REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST One of the effects of World War I in the Middle East‚ was a variety of nationalist movements began and spread due to the division of the Ottoman Empire. There are five essential assumptions of nationalism: all nationalists believe that humanity is naturally divided into smaller nations‚ nations can be identified by certain characteristics that all its citizens hold in common‚ including; ethnic‚ religious‚ or historical traditions‚ times might change
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becoming the Turkish state in 1923 by sparking the conflict in Turkey. This is seen through the wartime agreements of the allies and their involvement in the War of Independence in Turkey. However‚ the nationalists within Turkey who were led by Mustafa Kemal and the involvement of Greek forces played a much greater role in the ongoing struggle to abolish the Ottoman Empire during the War of Independence. The ruler of the Ottoman empire had declared war against the allied powers in 1914 (source B)
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Religious holidays in Turkey There are two religious holidays or feasts‚ the first is Seker Bayrami (3 days) which comes immediately after 30 days of fasting in the Ramadan and the second is Kurban Bayrami (4 days) which follows 70 days after Seker Bayrami. In Turkish‚ Bayram is "feast" or "holiday"‚ seker is "sweets" and kurban is a "sacrifice". The dates of religious holidays come 10 days earlier each year because of the difference between the Lunar Year (354 days) and the Solar Year (365 days)
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