Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes


Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.


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Kemal Ataturk, 1881-1938, 1st President and founder of the Turkish Republic, A letter to Erkin Behic from Cyrenaica, July 1912, Quoted in Andrew Mango, Ataturk

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • Born: May 19, 1881
  • Died: November 10, 1938
  • Nationality: Turkish
  • Profession: Leader

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.