Tag: Inspirational story from Priyanka Singh

  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founder of the Turkish Republic

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founder of the Turkish Republic

    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 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 1905. In 1911, he served against…