ATAM, SENI ANIYORUZ. / WE REMEMBER ATATURK ON THE 71st ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

Sonsuza Dek

Ataturk passed away on November 10, 1938 at the age of 58. In his short life, he was the hero of Anafartalar, Gallipoli where he commanded the army that defeated the English, French and Anzac forces, turning away the Allied Forces. After World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was crumbling and all the Allied Powers were after the Turkish Motherland, he built and commanded the Turkish Forces who fought and won the Turkish Independence War. He established the Republic of Turkey.

He had a grand vision for the Turkish Republic. The 15 years he was at the helm, he unhesitatingly moved Turkey towards a modern, civilized, prosperous and enlightened Society. He liberated both Man and Woman from being the subjects of Sultan to being free citizens. He built a nation without any class or privilege distinctions, all equally protected by the laws of the land.  He started the national education campaign to take education into the every town and village in Turkey.

His reforms are too numerous and too monumental to fit into this page. And our debt and gratitude is too large to put into words. All I can say is that we will try to live up to his ideals and principles, and educate the new generations in his vision and accomplishments. UNUTMADIK, UNUTTURMAYACAGIZ.