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    Personal life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    Atatürk and his adopted daughter Rukiye Erkin,

    Born

    Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa
    (Mustafa son of Ali Rıza)


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    Salonica (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire

    Died()10 November (aged c. 57)

    Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

    Resting placeAnıtkabir, Ankara, Turkey
    NationalityTurkish
    Alma&#;materOttoman War Academy
    Imperial Military Staff College
    Known&#;forMilitary commander, revolutionary statesman
    SpouseLatife Uşaklıgil (–25)
    Partner(s)Eleni Karinte (?-?)
    Dimitrina Kovacheva ()
    Fikriye Zeynep Özdinçer ()
    ChildrenFikriye, Halime, İhsan, Ömer, Fatma, Abdurrahman, Anneliese, Ayşe Afet, Nebile, Reşat, Rukiye, Zehra, Sabiha, Afife, Nuriye, Macide
    Mustafa, Ülkü
    Parent(s)Ali Rıza Efendi
    Zübeyde Hanım
    Ragıp Bey (step father)
    RelativesFatma İsmet (sister)
    Ahmet (brother)
    Ömer (brother)
    Makbule Atadan (sister)
    Naciye (sister)
    Vasfiye Çukuroğlu (adopted sister)
    Hakkı (step

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    Kemal Atatürk ()

    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, c.  ©Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey.

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in

    In , he served against the Italians in Libya and then in the Balkan Wars ( - ). He made his military reputation repelling the Allied invasion at the Dardanelles in

    In May , Atatürk began a nationalist revolution in Anatolia, organising resistance to the peace settlement imposed on Turkey by the victorious Allies. This was particularly focused on resisting Greek attempts to seize Smyrna and its hinterland. Victory over the Greeks enabled him to secure revision of the peace settlement in the Treaty of Lausanne.

    In , Atatürk established a provisional governmen

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    Atatürk: The Early Years

    Mustafa, who became Mustafa Kemal as a teenager and then Mustafa Kemal Atatürk late in life, was born around in the city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece), which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire. His family was middle-class, Turkish-speaking and Muslim. A good lärjunge, Mustafa Kemal attended a series of military schools, including the War College in Istanbul. He was then stationed in Syria and Palestine for a few years before securing a brev back in Salonica. In and , the hard-drinking Mustafa Kemal fought against the Italians in Libya.

    Did you know? The Turkish leader known as Atatürk had blue eyes and fair hair. Though he claimed to be descended from Turkish nomads, some historians believe he was at least partly of Balkan ancestry.

    During World War I (), the Ottoman Empire allied itself with Germany and Austria-Hungary. bygd this time, the aging empire had lost almost all of its territory in europe and Africa. Moreover, the so-called