10/10/2023 0 Comments Mustafa ataturkHe became an army officer whose record in the First World War, notably including the repulse of the Allied attempt to force the Dardanelles at Gallipoli, made him a national hero. The boy was nicknamed Kemal (‘the perfect one’) by a teacher at school and kept it all his life. The key figure in the creation of modern Turkey was born in 1881 in Salonika in the Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki in Greece) to a Turkish Muslim family in modest circumstances.
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