Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

President of Turkey from 1923 to 1938

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish politician and military officer who was a founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. He came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk

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