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Ataturk

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At·a·türk  (t-tûrk, ä-tä-tûrk), Kemal
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Noun1.Ataturk - Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)

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Iberia added a ninth weekly Madrid-Istanbul Ataturk frequency, citing an 8.
Thus he visited the Mausoleum of Ataturk, who founded Turkey as a secular state in 1924; attended a ceremony with Turkish president Ahmet Sezer; exchanged views with the state president of religious affairs Ali Bardokoglu and the Grand Mufti of Turkey; and visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque.
Reformers have been so unpopular that they have allied themselves with authoritarian (some bloodsoaked) regimes, like that of Ataturk Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Turkey, Reza Shah in Iran, Bashir al-Asad in Syria, Saddam Hussein in Iraq and both Pervez Musharraf and Ayub Khan in Pakistan.
 
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