On this day in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Pasha died.

On this day in 1938 Mustafa Kemal Pasha died,
one of the greatest personalities of the 20th century
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At some point we have to learn in Greece to study history objectively and not as we would like it to be.
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Mustafa was born in Thessaloniki with roots perhaps from Jews who were Islamized back in the distant 18th century.
He, of course, tried all his life to overturn this by saying everywhere that he was a genuine Turk.
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All this seems to me to be utter nonsense.
It doesn't matter where you come from but what you achieve with your merit.
dealing with bloodlines is, in my opinion, an occupation for idiots
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Mustafa loses his father when he was very young and his mother wants to make him a clergyman.
but he, with his special aptitude for mathematics, enters the military school of Thessaloniki
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There, his mathematician gives him the middle name “Kemal” which means «perfection» or «maturity» and which will accompany him from now on forever.
(At that time the Turks didn't have surnames, it wasn't in their culture)
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Naturally, he followed the military profession and continued his military studies in Germany.
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his characteristic was always that he was terribly ambitious and incredibly ruthless.
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He joined the Young Turks movement even though he deeply despised their leaders
Ember,
Jemal,
Jazi...
The Young Turks were for him another step up the ladder.
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goes briefly to the Staff in Istanbul, but is considered an enemy of the Sultan and is transferred to Damascus.
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from there it follows
Israel,
Libya,
Gallipoli,
Sofia, Bulgaria,
Riddler,
Palestine
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We're talking plowed the place
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here to say a little gossip.
When he was in Sofia, he fell in love with the daughter of a Bulgarian general.
They danced a waltz,
they talked and continued for some time on secret dates.
He came to ask her twice from her father and he refused him both times.
they say that he never got over it, it drove him to alcohol, and alcohol was his constant companion from then on, until it drove him to death...
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in May 1919 the Sultan, in order to get rid of him, sent him back as military inspector of the Eastern Provinces.
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and he does indeed go,
but does the opposite of the Sultan's orders.
in May 1919 organizes the army under himself and conducts the great massacre of the Pontians
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On 23 April 1920, Kemal arrived in Ankara and, having been sentenced to death by the Sultan, he was sentenced to death,
convened the Grand National Assembly,
which gives him the prime ministry and the leadership of the army
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from now on Mustafa Kemal Pasha will literally change the track
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will masterfully weave a multi-braided fairy tale that would be the envy of the world's greatest diplomats
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e.g.
at the same time as it is exterminating the Turkish communists (to clear the internal landscape),
did business with the communist Lenin and he gave him weapons to fight the western imperialists (Greeks)
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other,
He managed the French, who a few years ago were being slaughtered in Cilicia,
to make them recognize him and enter into the pact with him
Franklin Boyon
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about the same with the Italians,
the same and a little later with his great enemies, the English
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At the same time he was clearing the internal field without mercy and mercy.
Anyone who was not completely loyal to him, almost submissive, he took him out of the way.
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in 1923, after having thrown the Greek army into the sea, he has done ethnic cleansing in Turkey
and has concluded a peace treaty,
Turkey's first president is sworn in
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will continue in this position until his death
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will win the elections
1927,
of 1931
and 1935
Of course he never had any serious opposition to him since anyone who tried to raise his head would outlaw him.
(Simply and democratically)
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But no one can deny him the radical changes
who brought
banned polygamy,
banned the pendant and the fezzi,
imposed the Latin alphabet,
established the family surname,
established gender equality,
gave women the right to vote,
allowed the election of women to public office,
the Gregorian calendar was also established
while
significantly limited the religious influence
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to understand half of these things civilized Greece had not established
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He died today in 1938, at the age of 57 years, by the sanction of the Consul.
was just before the second world war broke out and he didn't get to see a fan,
Hitler,
to do on a large scale, what Kemal did on a slightly smaller scale 30 years ago...
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P.S. Hitler claimed to be an admirer of Kemal and many Nazi atrocities were faked by the Turks,
that's what most scholars will tell you.
What not many people will tell you and you'll have to look hard to find out is that
German military advisors (e.g. Otto Lehmann von Sanders) devised these atrocities and motivated the Young Turks to carry them out
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PS2. in 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha found himself in a Turkey defeated in the war, with a sultan chasing him and with all the great powers of the time having fought them.
and managed to drive out the better trained and armed Greeks.
managed to make enemies, friends, all Europeans
managed NOT to lose any part of main Turkey
succeeded in uprooting the Islamic mentality that had been rooted for endless centuries in the people
and inculcate in them a European culture which was almost impossible in those conditions
AND YET HE DID IT.
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha, whether we like it or not, was a great politician for his country, Huge...!!!!
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P.S.3. I chose the close-up picture because I think his criminal nature is reflected in his gaze.
that murderer's look, I don't think it is reflected so clearly in any other man in the whole history of the world

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias