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March of Izmir

"In the mountains of İzmir, flowers bloom
Golden sun sparks its rays there
Defeated enemies they run like the wind blowing
Long live Mustafa Kemal Pasha

Embrace of the Prophet, stead of martyrs
The trumpets are played, go along, dispatch!
The tents are burned, don't drop back,
Long live Mustafa Kemal Pasha

I'm a Turkish son, death is welcome to me
The soil, is my bed, my stead even if it's from thorn
May the ones who turned back will be ashamed of Allah*
Long live Mustafa Kemal Pasha"

I'm a Turkish son, death is welcome to meThe soil, is my bed, my stead even if it's from thornMay the ones who turned back will be ashamed of Allah*Long live Mustafa Kemal Pasha"

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İzmir Marşı

"İzmir'in dağlarında çiçekler açar,

Altın güneş orda sırmalar saçar

Bozulmuş düşmanlar yel gibi kaçar

Yaşa, Mustafa Kemal Paşa, yaşa!

Peygamber kucağı, şehitler yeri

Çalındı borular, haydi, ileri!

Bozuldu çadırlar, kalmayın geri,

Yaşa, Mustafa Kemal Paşa, yaşa!

Türk oğluyum ben, ölmek isterim

Toprak, diken olsa yatağım yerim,

Allah'ından utansın dönenler geri

Yaşa, Mustafa Kemal Paşa, yaşa!"

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal.from 1921 until 1934 (1881 - 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation. Ideologically a secularist and nationalist, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century.

Atatürk came to prominence for his role in securing the Ottoman Turkish victory at the Battle of Gallipoli (1915) during World War I. Following the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, he led the Turkish National Movement, which resisted mainland Turkey's partition among the victorious Allied powers. Establishing a provisional government in the present-day Turkish capital Ankara (known in English at the time as Angora), he defeated the forces sent by the Allies, thus emerging victorious from what was later referred to as the Turkish War of Independence. He subsequently proceeded to abolish the decrepit Ottoman Empire and proclaimed the foundation of the Turkish Republic in its place.

As the president of the newly formed Turkish Republic, Atatürk initiated a rigorous program of political, economic, and cultural reforms with the ultimate aim of building a modern, progressive and secular nation-state. He made primary education free and compulsory, opening thousands of new schools all over the country. He also introduced the Latin-based Turkish alphabet, replacing the old Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Turkish women received equal civil and political rights during Atatürk's presidency. In particular, women were given voting rights in local elections by Act no. 1580 on 3 April 1930 and a few years later, in 1934, full universal suffrage.

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