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Ataturk (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ataturk (Paperback, New Ed)
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Few men have had such personal influence over the destiny of their
countries as Mustapha Kemal, known as Ataturk ('father of the
Turks'). Leader of the Turkish national movement from 1909 he
rallied the Turkish armed forces against the proposed dismemberment
of the Turkish heartland in 1919, then ousted the Greeks from
Smyrna and extended Turkish power over much of Asia Minor. In 1923
he dissolved the old Ottoman Empire and became the first president
of the new Turkish Republic. His legacy survives to this day in a
now-powerful Turkey that lies strategically between Europe and
Asia, and culturally between the West and Islam. Despite the rise
of Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, Ataturk's stature within the
country remains enormous, as this new biography, based on major new
Turkish language sources, confirms. (Kirkus UK)
This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the
complexities of the man beneath. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founding
father of the Turkish Republic, was born plain Mustafa in Ottoman
Salonica in 1881. Trained as an army officer, he was virtually
unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the
victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the
Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, worsted the last Sultan and
secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the
first president of the new republic in 1923, transforming it from a
battle-scarred ruin into a regional power, and fast creating his
own legend and his own cult.
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