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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Encyclopedia 

Encyclopedia Americana, International Edition (1998), s.v. “Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal.”

This encyclopedia resembles the biography of Ataturk. He is founder of the Turkish Republic. His early military career, how he established the republic in Turkey, and his reforms are also mentioned in this encyclopedia.

Books

Kinross, Lord. Ataturk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey, 2nd
                   Ed. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1965.

This a biography of Ataturk, who is the father of Modern Turkey. The book starts with his birth, education as an officer, and service in the field. He served in the Tripolitanian War, The  Balkan Wars, and The First World War.  World War I brought Ottoman Empire to the end. The Turkish war of independence started in May 19, 1919 under the leadership of Ataturk. In 1923, Turkey proclaimed its independence, and Ataturk became the first president of the new republic.

Mango, Andrew. Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. Woodstock,   New York: The Overlook Press, 1999.

This book is another biography of Ataturk. I focused on two different periods of time between these two books. I focused mainly on the background of the republic and how it was proclaimed in Turkey in my first annotation. I concentrated what happened after the proclamation of the republic in Turkey in this book. Several series of reforms followed the proclamation of republic.  These reforms were the Abolition of the Caliphate in 1924, Revolution in Headgear in 1925, Emancipation of Woman in 1926,  and Reform of the Alphabet in 1928.

Scholarly Journals

Khadduri, Majid. “The Alexandretta Dispute.” The American Journal of International Law. 
                    Vol. 39, No.3 (July 1945): 406-425. Available online through Union County College from JSTOR at
                    http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9300%28194507%2939%3A3%3C406%3ATAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
                    (Accessed on February 29, 2008.)

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Wood, Margaret M. “Latinizing the Turkish Alphabet: A Study in the Introduction of a
                    Cultural Change.” The American Journal of Sociology. Vol.35, No.2. (Sep. 1929): 194-203.
                    Available online through Union County College from JSTOR at
                    http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28192909%2935%3A2%3C194%3ALTTAAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
                   (Accessed on February 29, 2008.)

Turkish people used to write in Arabic but speak in Turkish. After the proclamation of republic in Turkey, one of the remarkable reform was Latinizing the Turkish Alphabet in 1928. By the opening of the national schools in 1929, the new alphabet started to spread throughout of the whole nation.

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Senior Professor of Government and History
Union County College
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Updated September 2,, 2008