[[Image:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1919 Sivas Congress (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Atatürk]]
[[Image:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 1919 Sivas Congress (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Atatürk]]
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'''Kemal Atatürk'''<ref>[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Atat%C3%BCrk%27%C3%BCn_993_814_seri_numaral%C4%B1_n%C3%BCfus_c%C3%BCzdan%C4%B1.jpg ID card from 1934]</ref> (until 1934: '''Mustafa Kemal Pasha''', Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى كمال پاشا; after 1935: '''Kamâl Atatürk''';<ref>[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Atat%C3%BCrk%27%C3%BCn_993_815_seri_numaral%C4%B1_n%C3%BCfus_c%C3%BCzdan%C4%B1.jpg ID card from 1935]</ref> 1881 – 1938), commonly referred to as '''Mustafa Kemal Atatürk''', was a military commander of the Ottoman Army during [[World War I]], and a revolutionary statesman who founded the Republic of [[Turkey]].
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk''' (1881 – 1938) was a military commander of the Ottoman Army during [[World War I]], and a revolutionary statesman who founded the Republic of [[Turkey]]. Until 1934, his legal name was Mustafa Kemal Pasha,<ref>[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Atat%C3%BCrk%27%C3%BCn_993_814_seri_numaral%C4%B1_n%C3%BCfus_c%C3%BCzdan%C4%B1.jpg ID card from 1934]</ref> and he changed it to Kamâl Atatürk after 1935.<ref>[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Atat%C3%BCrk%27%C3%BCn_993_815_seri_numaral%C4%B1_n%C3%BCfus_c%C3%BCzdan%C4%B1.jpg ID card from 1935]</ref>