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

Posted by atasc on November 10, 2009 at 09:56 am

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.

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Ataturk dedicated 23 Nisan, the anniversary of the Turkish National Congress in 1920 to Children. His vision was:

FUTURE BELONGS TO AND IS PROTECTED BY FUTURE GENERATIONS.
He expressed it best when he addressed Turkish Youth:"

"O Turkish Youth! Your first and foremost duty is to defend and protect the Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic for all eternity. All the mighty strength that you will need exists in the noble blood a-flowing in your veins!."

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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ATASC SCHOOL IN IZMIT, TURKEY

ARSLANBEY ATA-SC OKULU On August 17, 1999, western Turkey was struck by a devastating magnitude-7.4 earthquake. Many thousands of people were killed, and many more made homeless by the quake that was centered near Izmit. Contributing to the rebuilding process, ATASC initiated an effort in February 2003 to build a new school for the children of Izmit. The school admitted its first class on September 13, 2004. ATASC still continues to support its namesake school.
Since 2006, ATASC sponsored 13 needy children, helped send 6 children to Space Camp Izmir, opened up a Computer Lab and a Science Lab. Most recently ATASC helped the school to open up a pre-school by furnishing four pre-school classrooms named for ATASC chapters. VATAN Chapter is currently in the process of furnishing a conference salon for the students of the elementary school.