{"id":3562,"date":"2017-05-19T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2017-05-19T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:10:21","slug":"mustafa-kemal-ataturk-the-first-president-of-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2017\/05\/19\/mustafa-kemal-ataturk-the-first-president-of-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk ~ the first president of Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3566\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/1310812-Mustafa_Kemal_Pasa1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3566\" alt=\"Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, c.1923\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/1310812-Mustafa_Kemal_Pasa1.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/1310812-Mustafa_Kemal_Pasa1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/05\/1310812-Mustafa_Kemal_Pasa1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, c.1923<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, May 19, is Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki, which was part of the Ottoman Empire and died on November 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 1938 in Istanbul.\u00a0 Atat\u00fcrk, which means father of the Turks was the first president of Turkey from 1923 to 1938.\u00a0 He led the National Movement and was the commander during the war of independence against imperialism.\u00a0 He was a nationalist and he advocated the independence of Turkey from all foreigners.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1923, he found the Republic of Turkey out of ashes of the Ottoman Empire and he transformed the country into a secular democratic nation-state and launched many reforms to create a modern Turkey by bringing a new political, legal, and education system and giving equal civil rights to women.<\/p>\n<p>A number of books with information about Mustafa Kemal can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/libraries\/special-collections\/index.html\">Special Collections<\/a> on the second floor of the Bartle Library. These include\u00a0<em>Ataturk :\u00a0a biography of\u00a0Mustafa\u00a0Kemal, father of modern Turkey<\/em>\u00a0by Lord Kinross,\u00a0<em>How happy to call oneself a Turk :\u00a0provincial newspapers and the negotiation of a Muslim national identity<\/em>\u00a0by Gavin D. Brockett and\u00a0<em>Turkey<\/em>\u00a0by Arnold J. Toynbee and Kenneth P. Kirkwood. All three of these books are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/libraries\/special-collections\/researchandcollections\/saeedpour.html\">Saeedpour Kurdish Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, May 19, is Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki, which was part of the Ottoman Empire and died on November 10th, 1938 in Istanbul.\u00a0 Atat\u00fcrk, which means father of the Turks was the first president of Turkey from 1923 to 1938.\u00a0 He led the National Movement and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}