Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism.
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Mustafa Kemal 19 May 1881 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Died |
10 November 1938 (aged 57) Istanbul, Turkey
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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