Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal. Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri, Vol. II. Türk İnkılap Tarihi Enstitüsü, 1959, p. 279.
Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrial nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.