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Article: Ataturk
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- Middle East
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright International Communications Dec 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ATATURK
By Andrew Mango published by John Murray ISBN 0 7195 5612 0 price 30.00 hardback
Mustafa Kemal AtatUrk, founding father of the Turkish Republic, was born plain Mustafa Kemal 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 and fast creating his own legend and his own cult.
In this eagerly awaited biography, Andrew Mango strips away the myth to show the ...
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