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As Russia and Great Britain strengthened their holds in the Middle East, Atatürk feared the occupation and dismemberment of Iran as a multi-ethnic society by these European powers. [228] Like Atatürk, Reza Shah wanted to secure Iran's borders, and in 1934, the Shah visited Atatürk.
There is only one instance where we have a direct statement from Atatürk in response to such allegations: Turkish politician Cemal Granda who served as Atatürk's butler between 1927-1938, wrote in his memoirs about a situation in which Atatürk hears allegations about his so-called Dönme roots and comments on be dealing in ethnic origin or ...
Young Turkish Women Pose on Ataturk Memorial . The Republican People's Party (CHP) was established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on September 9, 1923, not long before the declaration of the Republic of Turkey on October 29. The Republican People's Party did not attempt to update or define the philosophical roots of its Kemalism between the 1940s ...
According to a 2012 study of ethnic Turks, "Turkish population has a close genetic similarity to Middle Eastern and European populations and some degree of similarity to South Asian and Central Asian populations." [37] The analysis modeled each person's DNA as having originated from K ancestral populations and varied the parameter K from 2 to 7.
A portrait of a volunteer officer of the Civil Service Battalion (Asâkir-i Mülkiye Taburu) from Thessaloniki, supposed to be Ali Rıza Efendi.However, when the photo was shown, Atatürk reportedly said: "That's not my father". [1]
A prominent historian, Lord Kinross was a writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and works on Islamic history. [1]During the Second World War he served with the Royal Air Force and from 1944 to 1947 was First Secretary at the British Embassy at Cairo.
Atatürk's cult of personality was started during the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk [1] and continued by his successors after his death in 1938, by members of both his Republican People's Party and opposition parties alike, [2] and in a limited amount by himself during his lifetime in order to popularize and cement his social and political reforms as a founder and the first President of ...
The following is a list of notable Turkish Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.