The Biggest Pioneer in Turkey: ATATÜRK

The Biggest Pioneer in Turkey: ATATÜRK
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The founder of Turkish Republic, the Ottoman Empire and Turkish soldier. He was born in 1881,Salonika. He went to military schools to become a soldier. His first war, which he participated was Itola-Turkish War on 29th September 1911. He battled and protected some lands in Ottoman Empire despite this the other fronts didn’t succeed and Ottoman Empire lost its lands. After that he participated to World War l on 28th July, 1914. He succeed one of his fronts and became known. His fronts were Syria, Çanakkale and Caucasian. With the end of the Tsarist Russia the front got closed in 1918. In Çanakkale Mustafa Kemal’s forward-minded feelings guessed, where enemies could attack, and he with his fellow soldiers defended that front with their all strength. A lot of soldier died but they could save Hellespont. This victory wrote down as both loss and victory on 18th March, 1915. However the other fronts were lost. A mean, though agreements were coming for Ottoman Empire. The Armistic of Mudros and then Treaty of Sèvres’s terms were open-ended and argumentative to leave the country unprotectless for siege. The guns and weapons were taken, the army was disbanded and Bospurus and Dardanel were occupied. Mustafa Kemal took advantage of this situation and with Sultan’s permission went to Samsun as a general inspector to solve the complexity. However his main goal was to start the Turkish War of Independence. He went to Samsun on 19th May 1919, when he started Turkish War of Independence. He organized the Turkish public with his circulars and congresses. Also he and his politician friends  established a report about Turkish public’s independence and sovereignity on 28 January 1920, unfortunately these principles weren’t accepted by England. England occupied Istanbul and closed the council in Istanbul. Atatürk established a new war council on 23 April 1920 in Ankara-the safety place-. It was to represent the public and its power. At the same time a public army (Kuvay-ı Milliye) was making a war. Because of the public army’s loss in a war, Mustafa Kemal built the regular army. The fronts, that they battled, had only one defeat. This defeat didn’t stop them to continue. The war after that was Battle of Sakarya. With that war, they stopped the Greek advance on 13rd September, 1921. The biggest war was the last war, The Great Offensive. It was the attack time. The victory of the Great Offensive (Aug. 26- Sep. 9,1920)  ensured to Greek army to withdrive from West Anatolia. End of the war Armistic of Mudany was signed between Ottoman Empire and Greece on 11th October 1922 . The Turkish War of Independence was finished with that agreement. As a treaty, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed on 24 July 1923. This treaty solved the Caputulation, war compensation, borderline (except Hatay) and minority problems. After this independence they focused on to develope the country. On 29 October 1923 the Republic of Turkey was established. Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s goal was not only to make a war. His goals were to improve the country as Western countries. His principles were only science and education. He made lots of revolutions about politics, education, language, social life, economy and secularism.

He got his Atatürk name in 1934 by Turkish public. He died on 10th November at 9:05.
Editor's Note: The Tukish public owe him. If he didn’t do these things, we wouldn’t know what we will be doing now. Maybe I couldn't even write this at my peaceful home. He is the biggest leader in Turkey. He is still in our hearts and the youhts are following his footprints to protect our country.
 “ Authority, without any condition and reservation belongs to the nation.”