10 November, important day for you?

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ŋoяThεяŋ

Yes November the 10th is a very important day for Turkey and all the true Turkish citizens. I was in the Anıtkabir this morning and the atmosphere was unbelievable. We all love you Yüce Atatürk. Senin izinden yürüyoruz. Senin gibi Değerli bir Devlet adamı dünyaya ancak bir kez gelir.Atam sen huzur içinde yat. Seni hiç unutmadık ve asla unutmayacağız.

.:::Niko:::.

10 Kasım 1938 Ulu Önder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk hayata gözlerini yumdu. Ancak o daima kalbimizde yaşayacak.

"History has seen many great people. It has seen Alexander the Great's, Napoleon's, Washington's. However, in the twentieth century the record for greatness was broken by Atatürk, this Turkish son of a Turk."

L'IIIustration Newspaper, France

"I obtained information concerning Mustafa Kemal from someone who knows him very well. When talking with Foreign Minister Litvinov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, he said that in his opinion, the most valuable and interesting statesman in all of Europe does not live in Europe today, but beyond the Bosphorus, he lives in Ankara, and that this was the President of the Turkish Republic, Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America

"Atatürk's death is not only a loss for the country, but for Europe is the greatest loss, he who saved Turkey in the war and who revived a new the Turkish nation after the war. The sincere tears shed after him by all classes of people is nothing other than an appropriate manifestation to this great hero and modern Turkey's Ata."

Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

"Mustafa Kemal was not a socialist. But it can be perceived that he is a good organizer, with great understanding, progressive, with good thoughts and an intelligent leader. He is carrying out a war of independence against those plunderers. I am believing that he will break the pride of the imperialists and that he will beat the Sultan together with his friends. (1921 )"

Vladimir llyich Lenin, Leader of the Russian Revolution

"In connection with the permanent memorial facility for Kemal Atatürk, I take pride in presenting my congratulations to Turkey. Your great country that is advancing on the course that he demonstrated has obtained very significant successes. This ceremony that is being held to commemorate the memory of Atatürk, the architect of progress and Turkish unity, is a very appropriate respect to a person who became a source of inspiration to free peoples throughout the world."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America

"The name of Atatürk reminds people of the historical successes of one of the great individuals of this century, the leadership that gave inspiration to the Turkish nation, farsightedness in the understanding of the modern world and courage and power as a military leader. It is without a doubt that another example can't be shown indicating greater successes than the birth of the Turkish Republic and ever since then Atatürk's and Turkey's broad and deep reforms undertaken as well as the confidence of a nation in itself."

John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America

"Kemal Atatürk or Kemal Pasha by which name we knew him in those times, was my hero during my youth. I was very moved when I read about his great reforms. I met with great praise the general efforts made by Atatürk on the course of modernizing Turkey. His dynamism, undauntedness and unawareness of fatigue created a great effect on people. He was one of the builders of the modern age in the orient. I continue to be among his greatest admirers."

Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India

"We feel a great admiration for Atatürk in his efforts towards ensuring the modernization of Turkish society by separating religion and politics from each other and by carrying out the Turkish Language Reforms."

Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan

"In our times, it is Atatürk who brought Turkey to its current status as a modern republic with his farsighted and courageous political, social and economic reforms. At the same time, it was also he that prepared the foundation of the modern economy that will ensure today Turkey's attaining the strength to be able to enter the European Economic Community."

Joseph Luns, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

"He was a military-statesman, one of the greatest leaders of our era. He ensured that Turkey got its rightful place among the most advanced nations. Also, he gave the feeling of support and self-confidence to the Turks, that forms the foundation stone of a nation's greatness. I take great pride in being one of Atatürk's loyal friends."

General Douglas MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Forces, U.S.A.

"The West and the East came face to face at the second class coastal town of Mudanya on a crooked road covered with dust on the hot Marmara coast. Despite the English flag ship "Iron-Duke's" ash-colored deathly turrets that transported the Allied generals for negotiations with Ismet Pasha, the Westerners had come here to beg for peace, not to ask for peace or to dictate the conditions... These negotiations demonstrate the end of Europe's dominance over Asia, because as everyone knows, Mustafa Kemal got rid of all the Greeks."

Ernest Hemingway, American Journalist and Novelist

"The world, by no means and at no time, has witnessed such an exciting event as the re-founding of Turkey with a Western point of view and belief."

Social Demokraten Newspaper, Sweden

"In no other country have women advanced this rapidly. It is truly an unique event in history for a nation to change to this degree."

Daily Telegraph Newspaper, England

"The Sakarya Battle, the Sakarya Victory became the strongest recollection when I was twenty.

At that time I said to myself, I wonder whether or not I can mobilize my country like this? Can I not instill in his spirit this delivering attack, this unreined passion?"

NoxecA

for me also....
more than that, for our entire nation....

Totally Blunt

Can you imagine? For two silent moments, the entire nation thinks about his achievements and feels thankful for them.

Irmak

Of corz yes.

We remember Atatürk with respect..

Sarı Zeybek
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DejaVu

we miss him even more at this hard times I think, and I do read 'gençliğe hitabe' more often lately and its like watching it coming true breaks my heart...

Atatürk is the best thing that ever happened to our nation...He was a gift from God to us Turks..

Tanju

Hi Cetin,

Of Course,

We remember Atatürk with respect...

Take Care

ESA

Benim icin cok onemli! Remembering Ataturk and what he did for our country

Trotsky vs Kerensky- НекIо!

Surely, it is an important day for all of those who call themselves a Turk.

hanibal

Yes.
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of course yes.

єуℓüℓ

definitely

Ipek K

Yes it is an important day.

Today is the 69th death anniversary of M. Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Republic of Turkey and our first President.

546.000 people went to visit Anitkabir to pay their respects to him.

Observing the nowadays politics and the people who is in charge of the Government today, I miss him more than ever.

I hope he is resting in peace

istanbul bogazi

For me YES.
I am in another country you know but i woke up and i stayed 1 min silent in the morning. (saygi durusu I don't knwo in English)
I would like to give some important quotes that i admire from Ataturk.
"Peace at home,peace in the world"
“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”
"We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Mehmet K

Yes, sure ..I remember Atatürk with my best respect, admire and love..

not fair

yes

anlarm

The first name I learned was his name. The first word that I wrote on a small piece of paper was 'ATATURK' (I was 3). My grandmother, an illiterate woman, talked to me about him all the time. Her best compliment/prayer for me was "may you become as clever as him".
I/we grew up with his ideals. I hate the word 'Kemalism'. It just makes it a dogmatic ideology. Ataturk did not put forward an ideology. His ideals and views are not dogmatic. They have no limitations. The aim he gave us is to reach 'contemporary civilization'; something that keeps moving forward.
History has no other great man like him. Some were just leaders, some were great soldiers, some were great statesmen. Ataturk was all and more.
He never lost a battle as a soldier. He had a great military genius. He turned into a modern, democratic statesman. He made a revolution by changing the civil law, the penal code. He changed the alphabet, something never achived before. He made a reform in the way people dressed and lived.
His achievements were so diversified, and so many that just to name them would require more than a page.
He has always been my idol and will be so till my last day on earth. To those that find a somewhat sexual extacy in critising him, I say, 'Do one fifth of what he had done under those unfavorable conditions, and I will follow you as the new great leader of the Turkish people'.
To the man who had shown the whole world that Peace is what we should all pursue, that 'war is murder unless you need to protect your country', I bow with deep respect and love.
"...bıraksalar, ince uzun bacakları üstünde yaylanarak
ve karanlıkta akan bir yıldız gibi kayarak
Kocatepe'den Afyon ovasına atlayacaktı..."
You are always in my mind and heart, not just on November 10th.

Mr Beemer

YES

Jake P

Of course.

Wow, anlarm, I agree with everything you said.

: )

Pretty darn, 'cuz it's my birthday!

andreas

Not for me

Justin H

Nope, it means nothing to me.

Now November 12 was my wedding anniversary - it would be 13 years on Monday. And November 13 is a good friend's birthday.

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