Today is the day of remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

It has been 87 years since the death of the founder and leader of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The name of Atatürk, who crowned every battle for the independence of his people and homeland with victory, is inscribed in golden letters in the history of Turkey and the world.

As BAKU.WS reminds us, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Thessaloniki.

Mustafa Efendi, a mathematics teacher at the military lyceum in Thessaloniki where Atatürk studied, nicknamed his talented student "Kemal" to distinguish him from a classmate with the same name.

On October 29, 1923, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey proclaimed the republic with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as its head, who became its first president. He was elected to this position four times until his death in 1938, remaining in the history of Turkey as the head of state who led the country longer than anyone else.

Mustafa Kemal, who won the victory in the Battle of Sakarya against the Greeks on August 23, 1921, was awarded the titles of "marshal" and "gazi." In 1934, he was given the surname "Atatürk," and its use by other individuals was prohibited.

The founder of the modern Turkish state died on November 10, 1938, at the age of 57 in Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. In 1953, 15 years after his death, Atatürk's body was transferred from the Ethnographic Museum in Ankara to the Anıtkabir mausoleum.