Mustafa Kemal

However, Turkey soon elected Mustafa Kemal, an extreme nationalist who refused to honor the treaty and set about re-occupying those lands, leaving current day Armenia as a far smaller portion of its former self.

Why the Armenian Genocide Matters 2010

From the ashes of the Ottoman Sultanate, for the first time a fully secular revolution was led by a Turkish general, Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

However, Turkey soon elected Mustafa Kemal, an extreme nationalist who refused to honor the treaty and set about re-occupying those lands, leaving current day Armenia as a far smaller portion of its former self.

Robbie Gennet: Why the Armenian Genocide Matters 2010

Mustafa Kemal understood history's lesson in that regard: He sealed the borders, dug a kind of psychological trench between his country and its neighbors and tried to mute minority identities.

The Turkey-Iran Nuke Deal 2010

Mustafa Kemal -- also known as Ataturk, the charismatic army officer who is regarded as the founder of modern Turkey -- is depicted as an alcoholic and libertine whose conquests included a teenage Zsa Zsa Gabor, or so she later claimed.

Review of Stephen Kinzer's "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future" John Lancaster 2010

Established as a secular state by Mustafa Kemal, Attaturk (popularly known as the Father of the Turks), Turkey's political elite and military often defined and implemented their brand secularism (laic) as a hardline secularism, more autocratic than democratic, that was often anti-religion with little space for Islam in the public square.

John L. Esposito: Post Turkey: Obama's Challenges and Opportunities in the Muslim World 2009

Reading the words of Mustafa Kemal will also help you marshal your own significant resources and talents, for you seem to be blessed with a capacious mind much like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's.

Letter to President Obama: Turkey in an Arena of Trials 2009

We remember the indomitable leadership of Mustafa Kemal, who as Ataturk, the father of a nation, put aside the conflict and any enmity, and laid the foundation for a warm friendship that this day unites our nations.

Dawn Service, Gallipoli - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 2009

The new Turkish Republic was created by the General Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (19 May 1881 - 10 November 1938), who was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President.

Turkey in the Middle of the Enemies 2008

While simultaneously promoting enhanced rights for Turkish women, whom he wanted to reach the standards of their European counterparts, Mustafa Kemal did not touch their attire.

The Headscarf Strikes Back 2008