Ruler · Twentieth century · Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
1881–1938
Founder of the Republic of Turkey, 1881 to 1938, who built a modern secular state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. His victory in the Turkish War of Independence ended the Allied partition of Anatolia. As president from 1923 he abolished the caliphate, replaced Arabic script with Latin, and remade Turkish law and education.
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- Born
- 1881, Salonica.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kemal Ataturk
- Died
- 1938, Istanbul.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kemal Ataturk
- Office
- President of Turkey 1923 to 1938.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kemal Ataturk
- Known for
- The Turkish War of Independence and the secular reforms of the 1920s.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kemal Ataturk
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