Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
Kemal Ataturk, 1881-1938, 1st President and founder of the Turkish Republic, Quoted in http://www.gazi.edu.tr, December 12, 2003
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Turkey under the Ottomans had been an imperialist, expansionist, empire, fighting and ruling over half of Europe and all of the Middle East. Ataturk argued that fighting and taking casualties should only take place to protect the nation’s independence and not to build or maintain an empire.
At the beginning of July, 1826 Adams, deathly ill, was asked to propose a toast to be given in his name for the coming July 4 celebrations. It was:. On his deathbed four days later he was aroused by the firing of cannon. When told it was Independence Day he murmured:
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Ataturk had been a military hero, but was very much opposed to war and military adventurism not unlike the Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell type leaders. However, the one thing that he thought worth the sacrifice of his own and other Turkish lives was Turkish independence and sovereignty. Historically, the Ottoman Empire which Ataturk finally ended, had dominated half of Europe and all of the Mid East at the cost of sovereignty of other nations and Ataturk saw no more important virtue with dying for than national sovereignty. See {125322} and {584501}.
Adams died on July 4th.
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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.
