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After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk Saved Turkey from the
invasion of foreign powers.
By establishing the Turkish Republich and instituting innovations
according to his principles,
Atatürk was the commander and statesman who made Turkey a strong and
civilized country. He was born
in Thessaloniki in 1881 and died 10th of November 1938 at 9:35 a.m.
in the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.
With the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. the
British, French, Italians and Greek invaded
Turkish national soil. Refusing to accept this defeat and invasion,
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wnet to Samsun on May
19th,.1919 he then initiated the National Struggle with Erzurum and
Sivas Congresses. On December 27,1919
he came to Ankara, the city which he planned to establish as the
Center for Turkish State. Here on April 23 1920
he convened the the Grand National Assembly and was elected
chairman. In this respect, the National Struggle movement
was complelety materialized for the Turkish nation. The decisions of
the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
and disciplined armies which were formed and trained under Atatürk's
directives won the Inonu and Sakarya wars.
As a result of the Great Attack personally commanded by Atatürk on
August 30, 1922, The enemy was driven into the sea. On October
29,1923,
the republic was declared and the Grand National Assembly elected
Atatürk as the first President of the Country he
saved and the new Turkish State he established. |
