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Mustafa Kemal 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> (or alternatively written as '''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 – November 10, 1938), also known as '''Mustafa Kemal Pasha''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: ''Mustafa Kemal Paşa'') and often called '''Mustafa Kemal Atatürk''', was a Turkish military commander of the Ottoman Army during [[World War I]] and the founding father of the Turkish [[nation state]]. After the defeat of the [[Central Powers]] in World War I, he started a [[Nationalism|nationalist]] revolt against the legal Ottoman Imperial Government in [[Constantinople]] and the authorized Allied Powers. In this rebellion, he got stronger with the support of Ottoman army officers, politicians, and people. He won his war against Constantinople and the Allies, then founded the Republic of [[Turkey]]. He inspired [[Adolf Hitler]] with these actions.<ref>In his [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Address_to_the_Reichstag_(4_May_1941) address to the Reichstag on May 4, 1941], [[Adolf Hitler]] said: {{cquote|"Turkey had been our ally in the [[World War I|World War]]. Its unfortunate result was as heavy a burden for Turkey as it was for us. The great and ingenious reconstructor of the new Turkey gave his Allies, beaten by fate, the first example of resurrection. While Turkey, thanks to the realistic attitude of her State leadership, preserved her independent attitude Yugoslavia fell a victim to British intrigues."}}</ref><ref>In a [https://archivewww.orgdocdroid.net/detailsxaZwuc0/stefan-ihrig-ataturk-in-the-nazi-imagination/-pdf#page/116/mode/2up =125 meeting with a delegation of Turkish politicians and journalists on April 20, 1938], Hitler said: {{cquote|"Atatürk was the first to show that it is possible to mobilize and regenerate the resources that a country has lost. In this respect Atatürk was a teacher; [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] was his first and I his second student."}}</ref>
==Biography==
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