Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; (19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army officer, reformist statesman, and the first President of Turkey. |
Atatürk rescued the surviving Turkish remnant of the defeated Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. |
Atatürk is one of the great figures of the 20th century. |
Atatürk was born with Mustafa name, and his second name Kemal (meaning Perfection or Maturity) was given to him by his mathematics teacher. |
Modern Turkish history may be said to begin on the morning of May 19, 1919, with Mustafa Kemal’s landing at Samsun. |
Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881. |
Atatürk became an army officer and the most successful general officer of the empire in World War I. |
Atatürk was a successful military commander, and later established a democratic constitution and put in place changes that set Turkey on the road to becoming a new and developing nation. |
Atatürk is omnipresent in Turkey. |