"An unlovely date 10 November 1938 and Mustafa Kemal ATATURK.
Posted by Metin YILMAZ at 14:11 on 09 Nov 2007
FOUNDER AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC
Ataturk was born in 1881 at the Kocakasım ward of Salonika, in a three story pink house located on Islahhane Street. His father is Ali Rıza Efendi and his mother Zubeyde Hanım. His paternal grandfather, Hafız Ahmed Efendi belonged to the Kocacık nomads who were settled in Macedonia during the XIV - XV th centuries. His mother Zubeyde Hanım was the daughter of an Old Turkish family who had settled in the town of Langasa near Salonika. Ali Rıza Efendi, who worked as militia officer, title deed clerck and lumber trader, married Zubeyde Hanım in 1871. Four of the 5 siblings of Atatrk died at early ages and only one sister, Makbule (Atadan) survived, and lived until 1956. "
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