Graduates of the Ottoman Military College - Smet Nonu, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Fevzi Cakmak, Enver Pasha, Nuri As-Said, Kaz M Karabekir, Bakr Sidqi, Jaf (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: smet nonu, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Fevzi Cakmak, Enver Pasha, Nuri as-Said, Kaz m Karabekir, Bakr Sidqi, Jafar al-Askari, Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Osman Nuri Pasha, Djemal Pasha, Kaz m Orbay, Wehib Pasha, Mehmed Ali Pasha, Halil Kut, Salih Omurtak, Ali Fethi Okyar, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Yasin al-Hashimi, Abdul Kerim Pasha, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ali Riza Pasha, Mahmud Muhtar Pasha, Salih Hulusi Pasha, Nazim Pasha, Taha al-Hashimi. Excerpt: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (pronounced, 19 May 1881 by a posteriori-10 November 1938) was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Ataturk was a military officer during World War I. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara, he defeated the forces sent by the Allies. His military campaigns gained Turkey independence. Ataturk then embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, westernized and secular nation-state. The principles of Ataturk's reforms, upon which modern Turkey was established, are referred to as Kemalism. Mustafa was born in either the Ahmed Suba neighbourhood or the Islahhane Street (present-day Apostolu Pavlu Street) in the Koca Kas m Pasha neighbourhood (this house is preserved as a museum) in Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire, to his mother Zubeyde Han m (a housewife) and father Ali R za Efendi (a militia officer, title deed clerk and lumber trader). Only one of Ataturk's siblings, a sister named Makbule (Atadan) survived childhood; she died in 1956. According to...