(CUL) BOOK ON FOUNDER OF REPUBLIC OF TURKEY PROMOTED IN ITALIAN CAPITAL.ROME, Mar 18, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- A book about Mustafa Kemal Mustafa Kemal: see Atatürk, Kemal. Ataturk, founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, has been promoted in the Italian capital city of Rome. Turkish Embassy in Rome hosted a meeting to promote Fabio L. Grassi's latest book on Ataturk on Tuesday. During the meeting, Ataturk's biography written by Grassi in Italian was introduced to the guests, moreover, Turkish journalist Can Dundar's film "Mustafa" was screened. Speaking at the meeting, Turkish Ambassador in Rome Ugur Ziyal said that Italian researchers had had a growing interest in Ataturk in recent years. The book's writer Grassi said that his 443-page book was the product of a 20-year research. "Ataturk dedicated himself to Turkey. He was a statesman who took off his uniform when he was a victorious soldier and dedicated himself to the cultural transformation of his country. This is what is unique about him," Grassi said. Ataturk is the founder and the first president of the Republic of Turkey. Emerging as a military hero at the Dardanelles in 1915, he became the charismatic leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle in 1919. He blazed across the world scene in the early 1920s as a triumphant commander who crushed the invaders Generically speaking, invaders are those who participate in an invasion, often in a militaristic context. Other uses of the word include:
Ottoman dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family whose tale had lasted more than six centuries - and created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a new government truly representative of the nation's will. As President for 15 years, until his demise Death. A conveyance of property, usually of an interest in land. Originally meant a posthumous grant but has come to be applied commonly to a conveyance that is made for a definitive term, such as an estate for a term of years. in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk introduced a broad range of swift and sweeping reforms - in the political, social, legal, economic, and cultural spheres - virtually unparalleled in any other country. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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