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1881–1938 Turkey
Kemal Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1934, Kamâl Atatürk from 1935 to 1937, commonly referred to as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. His benevolent dictatorship undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation.
Turkey Military leaders Non-fiction authors Also known as: Atatürk, Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, Kemal Ataturk, Kemal Atatürk, Ataturk, Attaturk
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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations (1993)
We are friends now, and we will be much closer friends in the future.
Religions have been basis of the tyranny of kings and sultans.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Ataturk (1944)
Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy.
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
A World View of Criminal Justice (2005)
Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam.
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.
The torch that the Turkish nation holds in her hand and in her mind, while marching on the road of progress and civilisation, is positive sciences.
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
I. Milletlerarası Gençlik Kongresi [First International Youth Congress (1988)
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.
Victory belongs to those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success belongs to those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeed' in the end.
My moral heritage is science and reason.
Kemalist Devrim ve İdeolojisi (1980)
The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.
We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.
Milletin hayatı tehlikeye maruz kalmadıkça, savaş bir cinayettir.
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
U.S.A. Toddler Importing as a Turkish Businessman (2011)
Armenians have no rights in this prosperous country. Your country is yours, it belongs to the Turks. This country was Turkish in history, therefore it is Turkish and will live as a Turk forever.
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
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