Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
Mankind is a single body and each nation is a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
Kemal Ataturk, 1881-1938, 1st President and founder of the Turkish Republic, Quoted in Ataturk: Creator of Modern Turkey, Turkish Center, 1981
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The President was sending a message not only to the world, but to the Taft, isolationist wing of his own party.
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.