Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is such a leader that believes in power of education. Education is a frontier in a war against ignorance. It is an endless war. Teachers are the most important soldiers in this war. Ataturk considered teachers as the most important people who shape the generation. After the declaration of Republic, he planned…
Clothing revolution and wearing hat
While Mustafa Kemal was planning the revolutions for new Turkish Republic, he aimed to reach the civilization. In addition to cultural and political revolutions, Turkish public should have been taken the position of modern world. That’s why Mustafa Kemal examined the clothing of developed countries, and he decided to apply this to modern Turkish Republic…
How can we understand Ataturk?
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is a leader that encourages and supports the free life individually and politically. His principles can be orientated for a daily life or a nation’s destiny. Actually, public forms nation, individuals form the public. They are also very easy to understand and to apply. Because they are all based on logic and…
The difference between the nation with art and without art; Art makes the public open-minded.
A public requires some branches to reach a developed level such as art that can be the most important branch to improve as individually. When an individual improves himself/herself, public will reach the civilized nation very easily. We can describe the art as the way to describe the ideas and characters. So, the public will…
I like the wise, agile and ethic athletes
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is such a leader that he can direct his nation in true way. He cared the education of youth in every subject including sport. As he was a soldier, he was a well-disciplined officer. So, he also admired the disciplined people including athletes. Because sport is a branch that requires discipline like…
Strength of a public: Native Language
A public need something to unite in the frame of nationalism such as culture and public’s native language. Mustafa Kemal planned to unite the Turkish public in culture and Turkish language. There were two sorts of language in Ottoman Empire. The official language, that was used in palace and elite people, was the mixture of…
His vision for Islam
Mustafa Kemal was coming from traditional Muslim family. His mother was a traditional Muslim woman. She wanted him to be a hodja that’s why she sent him to the religious school of the neighborhood. He couldn’t orientate the religious school because of the reactions of the hodja. Then he decided to go to the military…
A human being can pass away but ideas never die
We all know that every human being is mortal. So, everybody will die in a day. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk stated that: my body will become soil naturally, but Turkish Republic will survive forever. He was aware of this fact and also, he knew that ideas never die. They live forever in the minds and history.…