- He is buried in Ankara, in Kemal Ataturk Mausoleum. He is still loved by many Turks almost seventy years after he died, and over one-hundred-and-twenty years since he was born.
- First president of Turkey from 1923 to 1938 who was a winning strategist in the war for Turkey's independence and helped found the Republic of Turkey in its aftermath. He transformed Turkey into a secular democratic nation-state, established new schools, and gave women equal civil rights.
- He enforced the new Turkish alphabet in 1928. It was one of the biggest changes in any alphabet (Turkish was previously written in Arab script, know as Ottoman). The letter o-umlaut allegedly came from Swedish, u-umlaut from German, s-cedilla from Romanian, c-cedilla from French, and the g-breve was introduced with the new alphabet.
- On November 10, all Turkish flags are at half-mast, as Ataturk died on that day.
- Had a fondness of raki, the national drink of Turkey. He was known to be a heavy drinker and hard-worker. This contributed to his death in 1937. Ismet Inonu, his successor, gave him a posthumous personality cult. It still remains despite his party's disappearance from Turkey's political map.
- His second name, Kemal, means "Perfection of Maturity" and his surname "Ataturk" means "Father of the Turks.".
- During Adolf Hitler's control of the Rhineland, Ataturk was able to gain control over waterways known as the Straits.
- He adopted thirteen children and married his wife Latife Ussaki in 1923.
- He served in the Turkish army and fought in the Italo-Turkish War in 1911.
- Despite being a lifelong proponent of democracy and an anti-communist, Ataturk was greatly admired in the Soviet Union and Turkey even held minor diplomatic ties with the communist state.
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