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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Before: December 30, 1922: Soviet Union declared
After: January 21, 1924: Lenin dies, Stalin maneuvers

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