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Biography
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesperson who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He led sweeping reforms, turning Turkey into a secular, industrialising nation. Ideologically a secularist, republican and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. Atatürk's personality cult and the Kemalist historiography developed around it have had significant and ongoing influences on Turkey's political culture and historical narrative.
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Awards & recognition
- Medal of Independence · 1923
- 1st Class Order of the Crown · 1918
- Gallipoli Star · 1918
- 1st class, Order of the Medjidie · 1917
- Iron Cross 2nd Class · 1917
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- Silver Military Merit Medal · 1917
- 2nd class, Order of the Medjidie · 1916
- Bronze Military Merit Medal · 1916
- Military Merit Cross III. Class · 1916
- Order of Osmanieh 2nd Class · 1916
- Imtiyaz Medal · 1915
- Iron Cross · 1915
- Liakat Medal · 1915
- Order of Osmanieh 3rd Class · 1915
- Order of Osmanieh 4th Class · 1912
- 5th class, Order of the Medjidie · 1906
- Military Merit Cross
- Military Merit Medal (Austria-Hungary)
- Order of Osmanieh
- Order of Saint Alexander
- Order of the Crown
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1934 · nominated
