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- Born: May 19, 1881 in Selanik, Ottoman Empire
- Spouse: Latife Usaklgil
- Political Party: Republican People's Party
- Turkey's first Speaker of Parliament from 1920-1923
- President of Turkey from 1923 to 1938
- Successor as President: Ismet Inonu
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic. Before establishing Turkey and becoming the country's first President, Ataturk was a decorated army commander who fought in World War I on the Anatolian and Palestinian fronts.
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Key Dates
- 1881: Born in Selanik to Ali Riza Efendi Zubeyde Hanim
- 1899: Enrolls in the War College in Istanbul
- 1919: Starts establish a Turkish resistance movement against the Ottoman Empire
- 1921: Leads his army to a decisive victory against the Greeks at Sakarya during the Greco-Turkish war
- July 24, 1923: The Treaty of Lausanne was signed and and on October 29 Turkey established indpendance
- 1928: Turkey becomes secular
- 1938: Ataturk dies in Istanbul




