Mustafa Kemal Attaturk
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a man who transformed his nation. As a commander, Nationalist leader, and the president of Turkey, Ataturk had the access and the power to make sweeping changes in the Turkish laws and culture, and that is precisely what he did. Ataturk believed that traditional Muslim government had become obsolete and that Turkey needed to adopt new principles from European countries that had already surged ahead of his own.[i] He accomplished "secularization, modernization and purification," and tempered Turkey's Middle Eastern culture with concepts borrowed from Western culture.[ii] By introducing reforms that superseded traditional Turkish garb and politics and reduced the influence of Islam in everyday life, he transformed Turkey and enabled it to gain a more competitive position on the world stage.[iii] Under Ataturk, Turkey changed from a relatively primitive feudal state to a modern empire, and even today the country continues to grow as a result. Ataturk's Life and Accomplishments Ataturk was born Mustafa Kemal on May 19, 1881 in Salonika in the Ottoman Empire, a city that was renamed to Thassaloniki when it became part of Greece.[iv] As a young man, he attended military school, and later a military academy in Istanbul, from which he graded as staff captain.[v] After serving in a variety of posts in the Ottoman army, he became the colonel in charge of the Infantry in World War I, and his ingenious
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