Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

male, deceased (1938)
Battle of Gallipoli, From Thessaloniki, Field Marshal of Turkey, TurkishWarofIndependence, personality cult, Turkish history…1st Speaker of the Parliament, Turkish hero, 1st President of Turkey, 1st Prime Minister of Turkey, Founder of Modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President. Mustafa Kemal e...
Celal Bayar

Celal Bayar

male, deceased (1986)
3rd President of Turkey, ousted in a coup, migrated, Treaty of Lausanne, Young Turk, immigrated…Leader of political parties in Turkey, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkish Independence Movement, World War I, President of Turkey
Mahmut Celal Bayar was a Turkish politician, statesman and the third President of Turkey. He was born in 1883 at Umurbey, a village of Gemlik,...
Rauf Orbay

Rauf Orbay

male, deceased (1964)
Circassian People, Progressive Republican Party, Kuvayi Milliye, ankara, prime minister, Prime Minister of Turkey…TurkishWarofIndependence, turkish, Turkish Grand National Assembly, balkan war, Armistice of Mudros
Huseyin Rauf Orbay was a Turkish sailor and statesman, born in Istanbul. He served as a naval officer in the Ottoman Navy, he was the captain of...
Hasan Tahsin

Hasan Tahsin

male, deceased (1915)
World War I, journalist, TurkishWarofIndependence, turkish, greek, Anatolia…Greco-Turkish War
Hasan Tahsin (1888 Selanik - May 15,1919 İzmir) was a Turkish journalist and is a national hero in Turkey. A member of the Ottoman Secret Service (...
Cevdet Sunay

Cevdet Sunay

male, deceased (1982)
buried at Turkish State Cemetery, General, senate, President of Turkey, World War I, British…TurkishWarofIndependence, turkish, Chief of General Staff of Turkey, prisoner of war, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish army officer, political leader and the 5th president of Turkey. He was born in 1899 in Trabzon. After attending...

Şemsettin Günaltay

male, deceased (1961)
Crimean Tatar, Republican People's Party, Prime Minister of Turkey, TurkishWarofIndependence, turkish, university of lausanne…Turkish Grand National Assembly, President of Turkey, Republic of Turkey, Committee of Union and Progress, University of Lausanne alumni
Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay was a Turkish historian, politician and prime minister of Turkey. He was born 1883 in the Kemaliye town of Erzincan Pr...

Halide Edip Adıvar

female, deceased (1964)
Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, American College for Girl, Robert College, ottoman empire, feminism, TurkishWarofIndependence…turkish, World War I, Turkish Grand National Assembly, Turkish women in warfare, Istanbul's Faculty of Letters
Halide Edip Adıvar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. Best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish w...

Lâtife Uşaklıgil

female, deceased (1975)
TurkishWarofIndependence, istanbul, Anatolia, From Izmir, izmir, Independence War
Lâtife Uşaklıgil was the wife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk between 1923 and 1925. She was born in 1898 in İzmir, where she received her high schoo...

Georgios Hatzianestis

male
TurkishWarofIndependence, greek, General, Executed military personnel, Commander-In-Chief, Greco-Turkish War
Georgios Hatzianestis was a Greek General. He was Commander-in-Chief of Greek armies during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) (known in Turkey as...

Ali Çetinkaya

male, deceased (1949)
politician, Government minister of Turkey, Turkish Grand National Assembly, turkish, urla, Lieutenant colonel…TurkishWarofIndependence, World War I, Greco-Turkish War, Turkish military personnel
Ali Çetinkaya was a Turkish soldier and later politician, who played a key role in the Turkish War of Independence starting with the earliest h...