'Biography of Ataturk\r'

'Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was the relegate of the Turkish Republic and its first President. He was born(p) in 1881 to Ali Riza Efendi and Zubeyde Hanim. His father was a militia officer, statute title deed clerk, and lumber trader. Mustafa Kemal had five siblings, only sensation of whom survived until 1956 ( narrative of Ataturk). Mustafa Kemal lost his father in 1888, at a time when the young son had been attending school. The boy returned to his birth town, Salonika, to finish his studies after his father’s demise. After his primary education, he joined a secondary school only to be transferred concisely to a military institution.Mustafa Kemal attended the Manastir Military inculcate and later the Military School in Istanbul from which he graduated with the rank of surrogate in the twelvemonth 1902 (Biography of Ataturk). The young bit entered the Military Academy after wards and graduated with the rank of major in the form 1905. This began Mustafa Kemal’s care er as a soldier. in the midst of 1905-1907, the man was stationed with the 5th Army in Damascus. He was promoted to the rank of senior major in 1907, and was affix in Manastir with the 3rd Army. When the â€Å"Special Troops” entered Istanbul in 1909, Mustafa Kemal was the Staff Officer of the troops (Biography of Ataturk).The man was send to Paris in 1910 where he attended the Picardie maneuvers. In 1911, Mustafa Kemal returned to Turkey where he began to work at the frequent Staff Office in Istanbul. He win the Tobruk battle once morest the Italians in the same year, after which he was made the commander of Derne. Mustafa Kemal’s rapid proficiency as a soldier did not demote here, chronicle OF ATATURK Page # 2 however.He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1914 during the Balkan warfare because his contributions to the recapturing of Dimetoka and Edirne were considerable (Biography of Ataturk). When the offset human War began with the involvem ent of the poof Empire, the man was affix to Tekirdag and charged with the formation of the 19th Division. Then, at Canakkale, Mustafa Kemal won more accolades for heroism. He was promoted to the rank of colonel after a victory he won in the First World War. Mustafa Kemal went on to win more victories against the allied forces.At one time, he commanded his soldiers thus: â€Å"I am not giving you an order to attack, I am ordering you to die! (Biography of Ataturk)” Mustafa Kemal was promoted to the rank of lieutenant ecumenic in 1916. He returned to Istanbul in 1917 and soon began travel to Germany with the heir to the throne. To Khalleppo he returned in 1918 as the Commander of the 7th Army. He was successful in his acknowledgment wars and soon ap channeled as the Commander of Yildirim Armies. On 13 November 1918, the man returned again to Istanbul to work at the Ministry of Defense (Biography of Ataturk).Mustafa Kemal went to Samsun as the 9th Army Inspector in 1919 o nce the Allied forces had begun to take over the Ottoman armies. He called the meeting of the Sivas Congress at this point and also convened the Erzerum Congress to define the path to be followed towards the poverty-strickendom of Turkey. The initiation of the Turkish Grand national Assembly in 1920 was a significant misuse in this direction. Mustafa Kemal was elected at this time as the head of the topic Assembly as swell up as the head of the Turkish Republic.With this decision, the Grand subject area Assembly also started putting into effect the legislative measures required for a successful conclusion to the chronicle OF ATATURK Page # 3 Turkish Independence War. This war had begun on 15 May 1919 during the Greek barter of Izmir. Militia forces called Kuva-yi Milliye had begun their fight against the victors of the First World War who had divided up the Ottoman Empire.The war was reason out when the Turkish Assembly achieved integration between the phalanx and the mili tia. Under the command of Mustafa Kemal, the Turks recaptured Sarikamis, Kars, and Gumru besides attaining other central victories (Biography of Ataturk). After the conclusion of the Turkish War of Independence, Mustafa Kemal was free to form a new nation on the Turkish soil †now considerably shrunk by dint of the Treaty of Sevres which had partitioned the Turkish Empire. On 29 October 1923, the Turkish Republic was officially proclaimed and Mustafa Kemal was elected as its first President.Ismet Inonu formed the first government of the Republic, and Mustafa Kemal sham his position of principle leadership with the twin principles of the Turkish Republic: â€Å"Sovereignty unconditionally belongs to the nation” and â€Å" recreation at home, peace in the world” (Biography of Ataturk). The man undertook a series of reforms at this point in order to modernize Turkey. He was elected as the Speaker of the Grand Assembly in 1920 and again in 1923. Moreover, in recogni tion of his efforts, the Turkish National Assembly conferred upon him the surname, â€Å"Ataturk” or the Father Turk and Ancestor Turk on 24 November 1934 (Mango).Ataturk died on 10 November 1938, finally defeat by a liver ailment (Biography of Ataturk). BIOGRAPHY OF ATATURK Page # 4 Works Cited 1. Biography of Ataturk (2007). Retrieved from www. ataturk. com. (27 February 2007). 2. Mango, Andrew. Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey. New York: John Murray, 2004.\r\n'