Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
There can be no friends more benevolent than the British.
Germany had been Turkey’s traditional ally so this was another of his radical changes—tilting toward Britain.
Kemal Ataturk, 1881-1938, 1st President and founder of the Turkish Republic, An interview in Minber, November 1919, Quoted in Andrew Mango, Ataturk
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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.