Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes


We are a nation without classes or special privileges.


Citations

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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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.