Modern Era · Middle East · Politics
1923
Ataturk founds the Turkish Republic
October 29, 1923
Out of the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal declared a republic with its capital at Ankara. Within a few years he would abolish the caliphate, ban the fez, adopt the Latin alphabet, and drag Turkey by force into Western modernity. His countrymen gave him the name Ataturk, father of the Turks.
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