Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was aware of the importance of the history. Since his youth years, he had been reading books and making research on history. He examined why the civilizations went up and collapsed. He got lessons by researching the history. So, he applied those lessons to new Turkish Republic. Not only Turkish history and also the world history (political and social) was his subject.

The most important lesson is always this fact: If a nation remains ignorant and undeveloped, it will be a bait for developed countries. A country should be literate to develop in a rational way. Every individual has to be aware of their missions for the state. Freedom is the key point to development. Full independency leads a nation to the top of civilization. A nation should protect their own culture (language, traditions and history) in order to shape the future safely.

Actually, some people or groups faced the same events in the past. Events are the same, but the actors are different. So, we can do the right thing by examining the history. The same events will also be lived in the future. (Check the Ataturk’s speech to the Turkish Youth)…

Always Ataturk…

After the WWI finished, Mondros Cease-fire Treaty was signed with Ottoman Empire. As a result of this treaty, Western Allies decided to invade and share the Anatolia according to their benefit. Turkish society got furious, but Ottoman family insisted on not to resist the invaders (even it was told that they were friends). Everything happened so violently that most of the pubic got desperate.

As a result of this fact, some options had appeared in the society. One of them was to surrender to UK and allies. It was the end of Turkish presence in Anatolia. The other one was to be ruled by another country. The difference was to be ruled by another country, but the public would be depended on that country. Briefly the mandate ruling system was that. Especially USA was the first country for this option. Even some elite people of the society supported this option. Due to desperate situation, the society was terrible. But Mustafa Kemal appeared and he had told that none of those options couldn’t be accepted. The only way was to fight for freedom. He stated that a nation that accepted mandatory couldn’t be able to live for a long time. That nation would be the slave of mandate powers. We have seen the examples of this application in history for several times. The history proved that he was so right that some of the cultures were destroyed under the name of globalization.

The supporters of those options joined the independence war later because they realized that freedom was possible. Mustafa Kemal united the country as a new Turkish Republic. His key habit was never to give up for any difficulty. Soil becomes country if there are any people who fight for it. It is the rule of all times.

Always Ataturk…