Ataturk's Life

ATATURK’S LIFE – ATATÜRK’ÜN HAYATI

ATATÜRK; A GREAT LEADER, The founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President.
Atatürk was born in 1881 (probably in the spring) in Salonica, then an Ottoman city, now in Greece.
He saved our country with his friends from the very strong nations of the world. And he overcomed them.
On May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha landed in the Black Sea port of Samsun to start the War of Independence. In defiance of the Sultan's government, he rallied a liberation army in Anatolia and convened the Congress of Erzurum and Sivas which established the basis for the new national effort under his leadership.
Atatürk enjoyed reading, listening music, dancing, horse riding and swimming. He was very much interested in the Western Anatolian folk dance Zeybek, wrestling and listening Rumelia songs.
He died on the "10th of November, 1938". His mausoleum is in Ankara. Ankara is the capital city of Turkey. It's in the middle of Turkey.
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