Ataturk

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• In 1922 Greek armies trying to conquer western Anatolia were routed by Turkey's military leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
• While meeting with the journalists, Ajar declined to comment on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent remarks on Israel and instead reaffirmed Ataturk's peaceful legacy and talked about the safety in Antalya, which is the Israeli tourist's favorite travel destination in Turkey. Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
• Ataturk secularized Turkey
• Even Ataturk, the president of the new Republic of Turkey sent a delegation out of respect. We washed his body.
• He became first president of Turkey, changing his name to Kemal Ataturk, symbolising him as father of the nation.
• Ataturk also outlawed the traditional fez, a brimless, cone-shaped, red hat and made brimmed felt hats mandatory, because with them on men could not touch their foreheads to the ground in prayer.
• First is the relationship between the Islamic religion and the state that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded in 1923 and whose secular nature the army has protected ever since.
• The leader of Turkey 's main secularist opposition is tearing up the rule book of the party that Ataturk built, as he tries to build a credible alternative to the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish Party Recasts Image
• But the move has raised hackles among some secularists in a country whose modern founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was a renowned drinker of raki , the national anisette spirit. Alcohol Hits Nerve In Turkey
• Will it survive their inevitable passing from the scene, or must it fade like the 30s detente between Ataturk and Venizelos?