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Personal life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Atatürk and his adopted daughter Rukiye Erkin, 1926

Born

Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa
(Mustafa son of Ali Rıza)


1880/1881

Salonica (Thessaloniki), Ottoman Empire

Died(1938-11-10)10 November 1938 (aged c. 57)

Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

Resting placeAnıtkabir, Ankara, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Alma materOttoman War Academy
Imperial Military Staff College
Known forMilitary commander, revolutionary statesman
SpouseLatife Uşaklıgil (1923–25)
Partner(s)Eleni Karinte (?-?)
Dimitrina Kovacheva (1913-14)
Fikriye Zeynep Özdinçer (1914-)
ChildrenFikriye, Halime, İhsan, Ömer, Fatma, Abdurrahman, Anneliese, Ayşe Afet, Nebile, Reşat, Rukiye, Zehra, Sabiha, Afife, Nuriye, Macide
Mustafa, Ülkü
Parent(s)Ali Rıza Efendi
Zübeyde Hanım
Ragıp Bey (step father)
RelativesFatma İsmet (sister)
Ahmet (brother)
Ömer (brother)
Makbule Atadan (sister)
Naciye (sister)
Vasfiye Çukuroğlu (adopted sister)
Hakkı (step brother)
Hasan (step brother)
Süreyya (step brother

Kemal, Mustafa (Atatürk)

By Erik-Jan Zürcher

Kemal Pasha Portrait
The image shows Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk), the Ottoman military officer who later became the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. He served as a commander at Gallipoli and in this image, from 1919, he is wearing the Gallipoli Star and Balkan Medal.
Unknown photographer: Formal portrait of Kemal Pasha (later known as Atatürk, [father of the Turks]) wearing the …, black-and-white photograph, Ottoman Empire: Turkey, 1919; source: Australian War Memorial, P04621.002, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1093230?image=1.
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Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal

(Mustafa Kemal Pasha)

Ottoman military officer; later, leader of the national resistance movement; founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey

Died 10 November 1938 in Istanbul, Turkey


Summary

Mustafa Kemal Pasha gained fame during World War I both as a successful commander on three Ottoman fronts and as a f

Biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk



Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in the Kocakasım District of Salonica in 1881 in a three-story pink house on Islahane Street. His father's name was Ali Rıza Efendi and his mother was Zübeyde Hanım. His paternal grandfather, Hafız Ahmet Efendi, was from the Kocacık Yörüks (a Turkish nomadic tribe), who had emigrated from Konya and Aydın and settled in Macedonia during the 14th and 15th centuries. His mother, Zübeyde Hanım, was the daughter of an old Turkish family that had settled in the town of Langaza near Salonica. Ali Rıza Efendi, who served as a militia officer, an estate clerk and a lumber merchant, married Zübeyde Hanım in 1871. Four of Atatürk's five siblings died at an early age and only his sister Makbule (Atadan) lived until 1956.

When Mustafa reached school age, he started his education at the Hafız Efendi local primary school; however, upon his father's request, he later switched to Şemsi Efendi School. After loosing his father in 1888, he spent some time on the Rapla farm with his maternal uncle and later returned to Salonica a

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