Ataturk av George W. Gawrych

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Mustafa Kemal Atat¿rk was one of the most significant political leaders of the twentieth century. How did he rise from humble origins in modern-day Greece to become the leader of the new Turkish Republic out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire and go on to radically transform Turkish society?In this book, George Gawrych studies Atat¿rk¿s career in detail. He shows the remarkable character of the man: a war hero who considered himself ¿baba¿ or father to his troops with a library of over 4000 books, Atat¿rk married the traits of the classic military man-of-action with those of the intellectual and theorist. Gawrych places Atat¿rk in the context of his times to reveal how with these unique character traits he harnessed wider forces of societal change and transformation to set Turkey on a path of secular nationalism, the legacy of which are explored in the text and can be seen everywhere in Turkey today, from the second names he imposed on citizens to the adoption of the Latin alphabet. At