"Turkey is Becoming More Active in Global Politics
By MIDDLE EAST TIMES
Published: November 17, 2008
Since the demise of the Ottoman Empire at the close of the First World War, Turkey, under the leadership of Mustapha Kemal, or as he was better known, Ataturk, withdrew the country into itself. The father of modern-day Turkey wanted to pull the country out of the Levant and attach it to Europe, something successive prime ministers have since been working to achieve."
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