Last week we were learning about ANZAC and I was working with Skyla we did some research about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.Why he was famous
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in 1881 in the former Ottoman Empire. As a young man, he was involved with the Young Turks, a revolutionary group that deposed the sultan in 1909. Ataturk led the Turkish War of Independence and signed the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which made Turkey a republic. Interesting facts about Mustafa.
Mustafa Kemal was the Turkey's first president
He is thr Trukish army leader for the world war 1
He replaced the Arabic alphabet with a Latin one and introduced the Gregorian calendar to Turkey.
The name Kemal came later. At 12 years old, Mustafa was sent to the military academy in Istanbul.
He was born March 12, 1881, in Salonika, which was then known as part of the Ottoman Empire, today his birthplace is known as Thessalonika, in modern-day Greece.
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Last week we were learning about ANZAC and I was working with Skyla we did some research about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.Why he was famous Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in 1881 in the former Ottoman Empire. As a young man, he was involved with the Young Turks, a revolutionary group that deposed the sultan in 1909. Ataturk led the Turkish War of Independence and signed the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which made Turkey a republic. Interesting facts about Mustafa.
