Mustafa Kemal Atat

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

• A presentation by Anna and Svenja

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Intent

• Main facts
• Military career
• War of Independence
• Presidency 1923-1938
• Father of Turkey

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Main facts

• Born 12.03.1881 in Greek
• Died 10.11.1938 in Istanbul
• Founder of the Turkish Republic and its first
  president

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Military career

• Military school
• Academy of war
• War Department
• Balkan War/ World War I.
• Savior of Istanbul
• 1919 he resigned from the army

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War of Independence

• Foundation of national congress
• National congress refuses peace treaty of
  Séveres
• treaty of Lausanne gives independence to most
  territories of modern turkey
• 29.10.1923 foundation of the turkish republic
• First president is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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Presidency 1923-1938

• Revolution of social structures
• - interdiction of religious costumes
• - first steps towards emancipation
• His presidency ended with his death

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Father of Turkey

• 1934 the national congress gave him the
  familyname Atatürk
• ? Father of Turkey
• 1938 he died because of a liver disease

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