Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership. Read the transcript ...

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkish pronunciation ... Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established ...

Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and visiting the many ... of Ottoman Sultans to the last home of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of modern Turkey.

As the Ottoman Empire became a continent-straddling Muslim ... By 1924, Turkey’s new leaders — chiefly the ruthlessly modernizing Mustafa Kemal Pasha, or Ataturk, as he’s widely remembered ...

At the time, the Turkish military adhered to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s principle ... Their differing ambitions—the revival of the Ottoman Empire versus the restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate ...

until he meets Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who plans to start a resistance in Anatolia against the occupying Allies, as well as the collaborators of an Ottoman government, that exists only on paper.