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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Haakon VII of Norway, Abbas II of Egypt, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Abu Bakar of Johor, Ibrahim of Johor, Fevzi Cakmak, Nureddin Pasha, Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Rudolf Stoger-Steiner von Steinstatten, Reginald Wingate, William Hacket Pain, Anthony Herbert, Tewfik Pasha, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Andrew Balfour, Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, Hugo II Logothetti, William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson, Henry Frederick Stephenson, Auckland Colvin, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Nikola Zhekov, Ernest Cassel, Abdullah Quilliam, Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Richard Harrison, Nikola Ivanov, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Charles Wyndham Murray, Otto von Lossow, Dighton Probyn, John Maxwell, Edward Bruce Hamley, Boghos Nubar, Robert George Broadwood, William George Nicholas Manley, Eldon Gorst, Euston Henry Sartorius, George FitzGeorge, Claud Charlton, Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar, Osminieh Order, Elwin Palmer, Henry Felix Woods, Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull. Excerpt: Kamal Ataturk or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (pronounced; 19 May 1881 by a posteriori-10 November 1938) was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Ataturk was a military officer during World War I. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara, he defeated the forces sent by the Allies. His military campaigns gained Turkey independence. Ataturk then embarked upon a program of political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the former Ottoman Empire into a modern, wester...