Shedding light on one of the most complex and enigmatic statesmen of the modern era, M. In doing so, it frames him within the historical context of the turbulent age in which he lived, and explores the uneasy transition from the late Ottoman imperial order to the modern Turkish state through his life and ideas. This book provides the first in-depth look at the intellectual life of the Turkish Republic's founder. When Mustafa Kemal Atat rk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science-and by the personality cult Atat rk created around himself-would reign supreme as the new religion.
A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped him
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