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Kemal Atatürk
Kemal Atatürk Turkey's founder and first president, Kemal Atatürk (né Mustafa Kemal).

Kemal Atatürk

president of Turkey
Also known as: Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Kemal Paşa
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Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. Author of Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition; coauthor of The Immortal Ataturk.
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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 Turkish written in the Latin alphabet and with citizens adopting European-style names. One of the great figures of the 20th century, Atatürk rescued the...

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