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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, [b] also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha [c] until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal [d] from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 [2] (c. 1881 [e] – 10 November 1938), 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 ...
President Mustafa Kemal Pasha and Mufti Abdurrahman Kamil Effendi in Amasya (1930) There is a controversy on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's religious beliefs. [73] Some researchers have emphasized that his discourses about religion are periodic and that his positive views related to this subject are limited in the early 1920s. [74]
[citation needed] One of the leaders of the İzmir plot to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) in İzmir after the establishment of the Turkish Republic was a Dönme named Mehmed Cavid, [13] a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the former Minister of Finance of the Ottoman Empire.
The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29. Ataturk established a Western-facing secular ...
The Greek occupation of Smyrna ended on 9 September 1922 with the Turkish capture of Smyrna by troops commanded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. After the Turkish advance on Smyrna, a mob murdered the Orthodox bishop Chrysostomos and a few days later the Great Fire of Smyrna burnt large parts of the city (including most of the Greek and Armenian areas).
However, the Greek army departed from Smyrna on 9 September 1922, [83] when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his army entered the city, while the fire began four days later, on 13 September 1922. [84] Nevertheless, Naimark concludes that "the fire almost assuredly was purposely set by the Turkish troops".
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of the Republic of Turkey, died at the Dolmabahçe Palace, his official residence in Istanbul, on 10 November 1938.His state funeral was held in the capital city of Ankara on 21 November, and was attended by dignitaries from seventeen nations.
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into claims that streaming service Disney + pulled a series on the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the group's chairman said ...