100th Anniversary of Turkish National Sovereignty

(Before the beginning, this article is not related to any kind of business matter or my professional life. This article has been written for celebrating historic principles and remembering a great historic figure.)

Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish National Assembly. For the first time in history, someone fought and won both the National Sovereignty War and the War of Independence at the same time. His name is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The Father of the Turks and the Modern Turkish Republic ensured equality between men and women. He gave women the right to vote and to be elected in 1934. He abolished all sharia courts and law. He fought simultaneously against the Ottoman Sultanate and the British Empire.

While racism came to power in Europe, Ataturk put aside hundreds of years of hostility. With the Balkan and Middle-eastern states, he established the Balkan Antiquities and Sadabat Pact against global colonial states.

Ataturk was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Greek Prime Minister Venizelos. They were old enemies at that time. Even during the War of Independence, he did not say anything bad about the Greeks, he said in the newspaper Hakimiyet-i Milliye (Independence of the Nation) that the main enemy was ‘Colonialism and Capitalism’, not Greeks or Armenians.

Atatürk had no children. They had only adopted children, with whom he took care and education. Among these children, the world’s first female combat pilot Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey’s first and had Abdurrahim Tuncak such as financial experts.

Abdurrahim Tuncak was a Kurdish Orphan whose mother and father were killed by Russian troops during the First World War. At the same time, he fought for six months against the parliament he established to donate all his property to his country in 1933.

Eventually, the entire property for 5 years before his death, just as all of his life dedicated to the country, had left the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish nation.

Atatürk made the Ottoman language spoken only in the palace and the upper-level bureaucrats from being the official language. He made Turkish the official language is spoken by the public.

He removed the Arabic alphabet used by the Ottomans from being the official alphabet. He made a Latin Alphabet, the official alphabet, arranged in Turkish.

The literacy rate in the Ottoman Empire was 4% for men and 1 for 1000 for women.

Between 1927 and 1936, Atatürk taught to read and write in the new alphabet to 36% of the public.

During his 15-year rule, he paid back the debts from the Ottoman Empire. Atatürk suppressed 48 reactionary and divisive revolts issued by Britain, the Soviets, and the Ottoman Dynasty.

In 15 years, Atatürk founded 47 factories in a country without industry, roads, and agricultural opportunities. Sculptures, paintings, and book exhibitions were taken all over Anatolia and People’s Houses.

In 1934 alone, more than a million Turks watched theaters for the first time in their lives, with theaters being taken to the villages.

When the war of independence ended, more than half of the Anatolian people suffered from diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, and dysentery.

He has created a new and modern national republic from a collapsed empire and naked, sick, and illiterate villagers.

Established the Child Protection Agency for orphans in the war … 16 Foreign banks, nationalized. Established 8 new Turkish banks.

Here it is impossible to fully describe one of the greatest in history. On April 23, 1920, Kemalism (Ideology of National Independence and Development for 3rd World Countries) embarked on a sacred journey.

The year 1981 was declared the year of Atatürk by UNESCO with the approval of all world state delegates. Because 1981 is the 100th birthday of Atatürk.

From General MacArthur to Gandhi, from Mohammed Ali Cinnah to Winston Churchill, he accepted every great person of his age, his genius, and his superiority.

Turkey’s present condition is a result of the natural history of development. Few people have been able to change the course of history and the accuracy of conditions.

Atatürk was someone who could change the course of history. After the death of Ataturk, Turkey’s independence is not surprising to lose again.

During his lifetime, Atatürk prevented the exploitation of the religious feelings of his people. He had established a modern education system in line with reason and science.

The world’s first pedologist to set up this education system

The more concessions he made, the closer he was to power. Occasional military coups, civilian coups, external borrowings, and corruption have become a part of our history …

Therefore, it is obvious that the Turks do not have national independence or national sovereignty today. Sorry I did not just say that even the Turks to Turkey. Turks living in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan or Iraq, Syria, or Iran … All in the same situation …

Turkey is in the same situation as those who killed Marat after the French Revolution. They have to praise Marat’s ideas and works. But they have not even absorbed a drop of Marat’s work and ideas.

As a Turk, it is impossible to celebrate today. Our history between 1938–2020 is exactly the same as the period of the Ottoman Empire between 1800–1920.

One day, with hope, to experience the power of reason and science, the love of national unity and independence...