Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey. He served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and theories became known as Kemalism. He is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th...