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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born on May 19, 1881 in Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. He was the son of Ali Rıza Efendi, a customs official, and his wife, Zubeyde Hanım. He was educated in the military schools of the Ottoman Empire and graduated from the War Academy in 1905. Atatürk was a military leader and statesman who founded the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He is widely regarded as the founder of modern Turkey and is credited with transforming the country from a largely agrarian society into a modern, secular, and democratic nation. Atatürk was a visionary leader who implemented sweeping reforms in the areas of politics, economics, education, and culture. He abolished the Ottoman sultanate and caliphate, replaced the Ottoman legal system with a secular civil code, and introduced the Latin alphabet to replace the Arabic script. He also encouraged the adoption of the Western dress code and the use of the Turkish language in all aspects of life. Atatürk was a charismatic leader who was widely admired for his courage and determination. He was also a strong advocate of women's rights and was instrumental in introducing the right to vote for women in 1934. At the time of his death, Atatürk was estimated to have a net worth of around $2 billion. He was a wealthy man who owned several properties, including a palace in Istanbul and a villa in Ankara. He also owned a yacht, several cars, and a private plane.

Popular As Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa (Mustafa son of Ali Rıza)
Occupation actor
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 30 November 1880
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace Salonica, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Date of death November 10, 1938
Died Place Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Height, Weight & Measurements

At 57 years old, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk height is 5' 8½" (1.74 m) .

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Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
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Who Is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Wife?

His wife is Latife Uşaklıgil (1923–25)

Family
Parents Ali Rıza Efendi Zübeyde Hanım
Wife Latife Uşaklıgil (1923–25)
Sibling Not Available
Children Sabiha Gökçen, Abdurrahim Tuncak, Nebile İrdelp, Rukiye Erkin, Zehra Aylin, Afet İnan

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk worth at the age of 57 years old? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from . We have estimated Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2023 Under Review
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Source of Income Actor

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1937

Had a fondness of raki, the national drink of Turkey. He was known to be a heavy drinker and hard-worker. This contributed to his death in 1937. Ismet Inonu, his successor, gave him a posthumous personality cult. It still remains despite his party's disappearance from Turkey's political map.

1934

In 1934, when the surname law was adopted, the national parliament gave him the name "Atatürk" (Turkish for Father of the Turks). A heavy drinker most of his life, Atatürk developed liver and kidney problems durng the last year of his life.

1928

He enforced the new Turkish alphabet in 1928. It was one of the biggest changes in any alphabet (Turkish was previously written in Arab script, know as Ottoman). The letter o-umlaut allegedly came from Swedish, u-umlaut from German, s-cedilla from Romanian, c-cedilla from French, and the g-breve was introduced with the new alphabet.

1925

The marriage ended in divorce in 1925.

1923

In July 1923, the national government signed the Lausanne Treaty with Great Britain, France, Greece, Italy, and others countries which regonized the new country of Turkey. In mid-October, Ankara became the capital of the new Turkish State. On October 29, the Republic was proclaimed and Mustafa Kemal Pasha was unanimously elected President of the Republic.

Kemal married Latife Usakligil in early 1923.

The account of Kemal Atatürk's fifteen year Presidency (1923-1938) is a saga of dramatic modernization. With indefatigable determination, he created a new political and legal system based on a Swiss Civil Code, abolished the Islamic Caliphate and made both government and education secular, gave equal rights to women, changed the Turkish language by transfering the written language from the Arabic script to the Roman alphabet, and the attire from Islamic to Western, and advanced the arts and the sciences, agriculture and industry.

1922

At the end of August 1922, the Turkish armies won their ultimate victory. Within a few weeks, the Turkish mainland was completely liberated, an armistice with Greece was signed, and the rule of the Ottoman dynasty was abolished.

1920

On April 23, 1920, the Grand National Assembly was inaugurated. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was elected as its President. Fighting on many fronts, he led his forces to victory against rebels and the invading Greek armies. Following the Turkish triumph at the two major battles at Izunu in Western Turkey, the Grand National Assembly conferred on Mustafa Kemal Pasha the title of Commander-in-Chief with the rank of Marshal.

1919

On May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Pasha landed in the Black Sea port of Samsun to start the Greco-Turkish War, (known to the Turks as the War of Independence. ) In defiance of the Sultan's government, he rallied a liberation army in Anatolia and convened the Congress of Erzurum and Sivas which established the basis for the new national effort under his leadership.

1918

In the next two years, from 1917 to 1918, he served as commander of several Ottoman armies in Palestine, Aleppo, and elsewhere, achieving another major victory by stopping the British advance at Aleppo just before the war-weary Turkish armies agreed to an armistice with the British on October 31, 1918 which ended World War I in the Middle East. As a result of the Ottoman Empire's defeat, the Turks lost all of their Middle East territories with the exception of the traditional Turkish area around the region of Asia Minor.

1915

In 1915, when the Dardanelles/Galipoli campaign was launched, Mustafa Kemal, recently premoted to Colonel, became a national hero by winning successive victories against the landing British French and ANZAC armies, pinning them down at their beacheads, which finally forced the invaders to evacuate Galipoli in January 1916. Promoted to General later that year, at age 35, he liberated two major provinces in eastern Turkey against the Russian armies.

1914

In October, 1914, the Ottoman Empire offically entered World War I alongside Germany and Austria as part of the Central Powers fighting the Allies of Great Britian, France, Italy and Russia.

1911

Mustafa Kemal's career flourished as he won his heroism in the far corners of the Ottoman Empire during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 as well as the Balakan Wars of 1913 in which he saw action in Albania and Tripoli, Libya. He also briefly served as a staff officer in Salonica and Istanbul and as a military attache in Sofia, Bulgaria.

1908

In 1908, he helped the group of officers who toppled the Sultan.

1905

In 1905, Mustafa Kemal graduated from the War Academy in Istanbul with the rank of Staff Captain. Posted in Damascus, Syria, then a part of the Ottoman Empire, he started with several colleagues a clandestine society called "Homeland and Freedom" to fight against the Sultan's despotism.

1893

In 1893, he entered a military high school where his mathematics teacher gave him the second name Kemal (meaning perfection in Turkish) in recognition of young Mustafa's superior achievement. He was thereafter known as Mustafa Kemal.

1881

Mustafa was born in 1881 in Salonica, then an Ottoman Turkish city, in modern day Greece. His father, Ali Riza, a customs official-turned-lumber merchant, died when Mustafa was still a boy. His mother, Zubeyde, a devout and strong-willed woman, raised him and his younger sister by herself. First enrolled in a traditional Islamic religious school, he soon switched to a modern school.