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After the triumph of his nationalist party in the early 1920s, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk established a republic with a constitution and regular elections.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Pamuk’s allegory has not gone unnoticed by the powers that be, earning the Nobel laureate legal trouble for supposedly insulting Turkey’s flag and the nation’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022
In 2013, an internal Facebook moderation document was leaked, revealing that Facebook moderators were instructed to flag all attacks on Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2017
Westernization was taken up far more forcefully after World War I and the creation of the Turkish Republic under its first president, Kemal Atatürk.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2017
Although modern Turkey’s founder, Kemal Atatürk, was born in what is now Greece, he moved his capital from Istanbul in European Turkey to Ankara in Asia, a city created from almost nothing.
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2016
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