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[3] [4] [5] Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism (Atatürkism). [ 3 ] Atatürk came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman Turkish victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I . [ 6 ]
Elected first president. 1928 9 August Speaks at Sarayburnu about the new Turkish alphabet. 1932 12 July Founds the Turkish Linguistic Society (now the Turkish Language Association). [2] 1934 16 June The Grand National Assembly of Turkey passes a law granting him the surname "ATATÜRK". 1938 10 November He dies.
14th president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey: 11 Abdullah Gül (born 1950) 2007: 28 August 2007: 28 August 2014 7 years AK Party: 40th minister of foreign affairs: 12 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954) 2014: 28 August 2014: 9 July 2018 3 years, 315 days AK Party: 25th prime minister of Turkey Presidential system (2018–present) 12 Recep ...
After Atatürk's death on November 10, 1938, İsmet İnönü became president. During the İnönü presidency two forces struggled for dominance: one group wanted to increase the control over state functions, while the other group wanted to debate domestic and foreign affairs.
Following a decade of Cypriot intercommunal violence and the coup in Cyprus in 1974 staged by the EOKA B paramilitary organisation, which overthrew President Makarios and installed the pro-Enosis (union with Greece) Sampson as dictator, Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974 by unilaterally exercising Article IV in the Treaty of Guarantee (1960 ...
Ataturk, who led the Turkish independence struggle in the years following World War I and went on to become the country's first president, is a much-venerated figure in Turkey, where insulting his ...
The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye (Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey. The president directs the executive branch of the national government and is the commander-in-chief of the Turkish military .
The elements of the political system visioned by Atatürk's Reforms developed in stages, but by 1935, when the last part of the Atatürk's Reforms removed the reference to Islam in the Constitution; Turkey became a secular and democratic , republic that derives its sovereignty from the people.