After an introduction to the country's geography, political institutions, economic structure, and cultural characteristics, chapters cover the ancient history of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace, from the Paleolithic age to the Seljuk Turkish victory over Byzantine armies at Manzikert; the Turkish conquest of Anatolia and the imperial rule of the Ottoman sultans; the Young Turk revolution, War of Independence, and early years of the republic; Turkish multi-party democracy up to the military coup of September 12, 1980; the effects of military rule; the Justice and Development Party years; and the Gezi Park protests and Turkish life since then, emphasizing the legacy of
Mustafa Kemal Pasha AtatErk, the first president.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha who emerged as a savior of Turkey after World War I, was a part this movement.
The exhibition opens with the paintings by Wilhelm Viktor Krausz who was sent to the frontlines of ystanbul and Ecanakkale as a war artist and painted portraits of many prominent figures including Sultan Mehmed ReE-ad, Sadrazam Said Halim Pasha, E[currency]eyhE-lislam Hayri Efendi, Minister of War Enver Pasha, Interior Minister Talat Pasha and most importantly the first known portrait of
Mustafa Kemal Pasha.
When
Mustafa Kemal Pasha founded the Republic, he inherited the Unionists' "experienced" bureaucratic class and granted them control over all strategic government institutions and agencies, including the Armed Forces and the Intelligence Agency to this group of bureaucrats.
Vice President Ansari, who is presently on a five-day visit to Turkey, while signing in Golden Book at Ataturk Mausoleum here today opined that the ideals symbolized by
Mustafa Kemal Pasha continue to inspire secular, liberal and democratic people the world over.
President Zardari later wrote remarks in a special note book placed at the site stating, It is a great honour for me to pay homage to Ghazi
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, an illustrious soldier, a great reformer and a visionary statesman.
During World War I, he served as a colonel and worked under
Mustafa Kemal Pasha during his assignments at the Caucasus and Palestine fronts.
For hours
Mustafa Kemal Pasha discussed the merits of [a] proposition with the inner circle of his associates.
Then a modern republic of Turkey was set up by
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who became known as Ataturk (the father of the Turks) and imposed a Western-influenced secular ideology known as Kemalism and the concept of a nation-state called etatism - as opposed to the Islamic concept of "the Umma" (God's nation under a theocracy or caliphate).
The National Assembly passed a law restricting the use of this surname to "the person of the Gazi
Mustafa Kemal Pasha.
They describe the shifting and conflicting interests of Britain and France, the prostrate Ottoman government in Istanbul, and the newly rising national resistance movement led by
Mustafa Kemal Pasha based in Anatolia.
Vice President Ansari, who is presently on a five-day visit to Turkey, while signing in Golden Book at Ataturk Mausoleum here opined that the ideals symbolized by
Mustafa Kemal Pasha continue to inspire secular, liberal and democratic people the world over.
