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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was an Ottoman army officer and Turkish statesman who founded the modern Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He first rose to national prominence as a commander defending the Gallipoli Peninsula against Allied invasion during the First World War, then led nationalist forces to victory in the Turkish War of Independence following the war. As president he carried out sweeping political, legal, social and cultural reforms intended to transform Turkey into a secular, Western-oriented nation state, a program of reform later known as Kemalism that continued to shape Turkish political culture long after his death.
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Birth YearWikipedia gives the birth year as c. 1881; no birth record survives and the exact date is conventionally celebrated as 19 May. Cross-Tradition Connections
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