In 1980, the airport was renamed Atatürk International Airport in honor of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey.

But, in transforming Turkey, Ataturk did not begin entirely from scratch.

It is difficult to imagine a more symbolic blow to Ataturk s vision.

During Atatürk's visit to Bursa in 1925, Sabiha, who was only twelve years old, asked for permission to talk with Atatürk and expressed her wish to study in a boarding school.

Ataturk viewed Islam as a major factor holding back Turkey s progress.

He has wide ranging powers, including the authority to make senior government appointments.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic in 1923, he defined the Patriarchate as a center of perfidy.

As an alternative, he promoted a rival Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate, which became a bastion of ultra nationalist ideology.

Moreover, the Turkish model owes much to the leadership of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.

Moreover, the Turkish model owes much to the leadership of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. Ataturk, a committed Westernizer and political visionary, transformed the multinational Ottoman empire into a modern state based on Turkish nationalism.

It took thirty six hours (on a 6 day span) to be read by Atatürk.

Perhaps what Iraq needs most is not a ballot box, but an Atatürk.

For Ataturk, Westernization and modernization went hand in hand.

In the 1920 s and 1930 s the years of Atutűrk s rule the new Turkish women became the icon of the modern, secular regime.

Many Muslims still condemn the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal, because he tried to modernize his country.

Since the days of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, the modernization of Turkey has relied on its Western or European perspective.

The civilizing efforts that Ataturk s revolution directed inward and in favor of disengagement from the Arab and Muslim worlds are now being revisited.

The uneasy challenge for Turkey is to secure its newfound regional role without betraying Ataturk s democratic legacy.

Ataturk, a committed Westernizer and political visionary, transformed the multinational Ottoman empire into a modern state based on Turkish nationalism.

President of the GNA (renamed the Grand National Assembly of Turkey after 8 February 1921) and later of the Republic of Turkey, was Mustafa Kemal.

Corporatism spread beyond Christendom to Turkey under Atatürk and, using aliases to hide its Catholic provenance, to other Arab countries.

People fear that sharia law will replace secular legislation, and that Islamism will spoil the fruits of Kemal Atatürk s drive to modernize post Ottoman Turkey.

The special flight departed from Ankara Esenboğa International Airport bound for London Heathrow Airport via Istanbul Atatürk International Airport and Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport .

TEL AVIV Ever since Turkey s establishment as a republic, the country has oscillated between the Western oriented heritage of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and its eastern, Ottoman legacy.

The current crisis reveals the depth of Turkey s identity complex, its oscillation between its Western oriented Kemalist heritage and its Eastern Ottoman legacy.

Following the First World War the province was ceded to Greece, but was retaken by the forces of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Turkish War of Independence.

The speech covered the events between the start of the Turkish War of Independence on May 19, 1919 and the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923.

After the disaster of August 1922 and the rout of the Greeks by Mustafa Kemal's forces, the remnants of the Greek Army revolted in September, and the government was deposed.

In seeking to establish the type of regional influence that Turks have not had since Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey, Erdoğan has fallen prey to some of the Ottoman regime s hubris.

Earlier this month, Morar (LJ user natmorar) had a bizarre experience at Istanbul International Atatürk Airport, which she has described (RUS) on her blog

But would Turkey be Muslim today without Ataturk? Mustafa Kamal s clear sightedness saved Islam in Turkey and saved Turkey for Islam.

The AKP s resounding victory means that the Turkish republic originally shaped as a secular state by Kemal Ataturk in the 1920 s is dead.

As he disagreed with the new constitution determined by the sultan, in 1920 he went to Ankara to join Mustafa Kemal and the Turkish Independence Movement.

The general, who offered the father of modern Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, as his model, also seemed to represent a vision for his country that combined economic growth with support for secularizing impulses.

Members of Turkey s secular, pro European elite, governing almost continuously since Kemal Atatürk founded the republic in 1923, are now being squeezed from two directions.

Indeed, Turkish foreign policy is now far more proactive and multi dimensional than at any period since Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.

Certainly, both French laicité and Turkish secularism (established by modern Turkey s founder, Kemal Atatürk) began with a similar hostility toward religion.

The events were triggered by the false news that the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in 1881 had been bombed the day before.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken up this very challenge, first set by his great predecessor Kemal Atatürk nearly a century ago.

You are barred from entering the country, you'll be deported back to Moldova now, a Turkish border control officer at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul explained to me in broken English, passing my documents to a promptly summoned policeman.

The roots of the Presidential Seal and Presidential Flag of Turkey go back to September 1922, when a similar flag was used on the automobile that took Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to İzmir during the final days of the Turkish War of Independence.

While the Kemalists sought a radical break with the Ottoman past, there were important elements of continuity between their Westernization efforts and those undertaken in the late Ottoman period.

Background (Calligraphy) Hakimiyet Milletindir means Sovereignty Belongs to the Nation The Nutuk (Modern Turkish Söylev Speech) was a speech delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi.

In addition, during the second half of 2015, Facebook restricted access to 2078 pieces of content in response to requests made by Turkish authorities under internet law number 5651 which bans personal rights violations and the defamation of the Turkish republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

It was also a clear departure from the conventional foreign policy straightjacket devised by Kemal Ataturk, which had for decades forced Turkish diplomacy into the Procrustean bed of 1920 s style integral nationalism.