Hi delaplla,
Thank you for another very interesting question.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - 1938)
http://www.ataturk.com/founder.htm
"Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people."
October 29, 1923 is a fateful date in Turkish history. On that date.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the liberator of his country, proclaimed the
Republic of Turkey. The new homogeneous nation-state stood in sharp
contrast to the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire out of whose ashes it
arose. The dynasty and theocratic Ottoman system, with its Sultanate
and Caliphate, thus came to and end. Atatürk's Turkey dedicated itself
to the sovereignty of the national will - to the creation of, in
President's words, "the state of the people ".
The Republic swiftly moved to put an end to the so-called
"Capitulations ", the special rights and privileges that the Ottomans
had granted to some European powers.
The New Turkey's ideology was, and remains, "Kemalism", later known as
"Atatürkism". Its basic principles stress the republican form of
government representing the power of electorate, secular
administration, nationalism, mixed economy with state participation in
many of the vital sectors, and modernization. Atatürkism introduced to
Turkey the process of parliamentary and participatory democracy.
The first Moslem nation to become a Republic, Turkey has served since
the early 1920s as a model for Moslem and non-Moslem nations in the
emerging world."
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http://infoturkey.dostweb.com/turkey.htm
"Turkey also has a very fascinating recent history. Upon the decline
of the Ottoman Empire, a young man named Mustafa Kemal, who was a
soldier by occupation but a great visionary in character, took the
defeat of World War I and turned it into a shining victory by
liberating Turkey of all foreign invaders. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
founded the Republic of Turkey on the 29th of October, 1923. He led
his country into peace and stability, with tremendous economic growth
and complete modernization. Through decades of change and growth
Turkey still boasts of this success by effectively living by their
adopted motto of "Peace at Home, Peace in the World"."
Best regards,
tlspiegel |
