HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Kemal Atatürk
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Saddam Hussein
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Anwar Sadat
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Detailed explanation-1: -The national forces were united around the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the authority of the Grand National Assembly set up in Ankara, which pursued the Turkish War of Independence.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Treaty of Lausanne was signed on 24 July 1923. On 13 October Ankara officially became the capital of the new Turkish state. On 29 October a republic was proclaimed, with Mustafa Kemal as its first president.
Detailed explanation-3: -Turkey is officially a secular country with no official religion since the constitutional amendment in 1928, which was later strengthened and entrenched with wider appliance of laicism by founder Atatürk during the mid ‘30s, all being in-part with the series’ of Atatürk’s Reforms.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following the Turkish War of Independence, not only the modern Turkish Republic was established, but also Mustafa Kemal was elected as the first President of the new Republic on 29 October 1923.