![]() ![]() ![]() Following the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted mainland Turkey's partition among the victorious Allied powers. Ītatürk came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman Turkish victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. ![]() 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until 1934 ( c. ![]()
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