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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 ...
Several civilian officials, mostly Young Turks, opposed the genocide and sometimes went as far as saving Armenians.One such case is Hasan Mazhar, the governor (vali) of Ankara, who refused to participate in the genocide, was dismissed, and later returned to lead the Istanbul trials that sentenced the most obvious culprits of the genocide to death. [2]
The book's title refers to a statement by Mustafa Kemal in which he called the deportation of Armenians a "shameful act". Historian Fatma Ulgen writes that the book "remains strangely silent about Kemal's role in the consolidation of Turkish denial within official Turkish history" and that Akçam's suggestion that Kemal's views of the genocide ...
Local media reports said Armenian Americans had lobbied for the show to be canceled on the grounds that Ataturk, as an officer in the Ottoman army, was tied to the mass killing of Armenians in 1915.
Experienced officers, including the captain Ali Kılıç, were sent by Mustafa Kemal to organize the tribal units and bands of chete (irregular fighters) in the region. [ citation needed ] The Turkish nationalist movement was able to gain the support of local Muslims in Cilicia who had benefited from stolen Armenian properties and did not want ...
İnönü is acknowledged by many as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's right-hand man, with their friendship going back to the Caucasus campaign. In the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 , he served as the first chief of the General Staff from 1922 to 1924 for the regular Turkish army , during which he commanded forces during the First and Second Battles ...
Horton believed that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk continued the policies of the Young Turks. [185] [186] "The Turks were now making a thorough and systematic job of killing Armenian men. The squads of soldiers were chiefly engaged in hunting down and killing Armenians." [185]
Turkey's ruling party has criticised a reported decision by Walt Disney Co's Disney+ not to broadcast a documentary about modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on its streaming service.