Ataturk’s landing 100 years ago celebrated Sunday in New Haven
By Ed Stannard Published 7:37 pm EDT, Friday, May 17, 2019
NEW HAVEN — On May 19, 1919, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk stepped off a ship at Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea, after a three-day trip from Istanbul, and launched the Turkish War of Independence against the allies who had divided up the territory that had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire before it collapsed in World War I.
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