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Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force. The Ottoman dynasty appropriated by force the government of the Turks, and reigned over them for six centuries. Now the Turkish nation has effectively gained possession of its sovereignty…

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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