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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.
In May 1920, the power struggle between the two governments led to a death sentence in absentia for Atatürk by the Turkish courts-martial. [92] Halide Edib (Adıvar) and Ali Fuat (Cebesoy) were also sentenced to death alongside Atatürk. [93] The Abilene Daily Reporter based in Texas, U.S., called Atatürk "Turkey's George Washington" on 13 ...
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a revolutionary who helped establish the Republic of Turkey. He was Turkey's first president, and his reforms modernized the country.
Kemal Atatürk (born 1881, Salonika [now Thessaloníki], Greece—died November 10, 1938, Istanbul, Turkey) was a soldier, statesman, and reformer who was the founder and first president (1923–38) of the Republic of Turkey. He modernized the country’s legal and educational systems and encouraged the adoption of a European way of life, with ...
The sultan’s government in Istanbul sentenced Mustafa Kemal to death in absentia, but it failed to prevent him from building up both military and popular support.
His death drew a gigantic outpouring of grief from the Turkish people. His body was carried through a mourning Istanbul on its way to Ankara, where it was temporarily laid to rest, while a magnificent mausoleum was erected, with a museum in his memory.
Sensing his death and wishing to secure his role in history for eternity, Mustafa Kemal began calling himself Atatürk in 1934, and it is the name posterity has assigned him as well. His extraordinary destiny captivated his contemporaries and continues to elicit the interest of historians.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, c. 1916 © Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey.
Died on November 10, 1938 (Istanbul, Turkey) President of Turkey. Military leader. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is widely hailed as the founder of modern Turkey, a nation that emerged in 1923 out of the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire (a vast empire of southwest Asia, northeast Africa, and southeast Europe that reigned from the thirteenth century to ...
At five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation’s 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five...