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A Dreamer
It is just my heart spilling out to you; True words from a Dreamer.. I was a dreamer, gaping at the wall above, sitting enchanted like a spellbound dove. I was a dreamer, dreaming about the forbidden, dreaming about the prince, who till then was hidden. I was a dreamer, whose dreams came true, when…
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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…