TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gönül Bakay
AU  - Leyla Pekcan
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653070774
TI  - Memorable Encounters with Atatürk
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-07077-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063733
N2  - The book is a collection of memoirs related to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The recollections of 27 people who met Atatürk in person reflect the environment in which they grew up. The accounts of their childhood during the founding period of the Turkish Republic provide a wealth of information enabling historians to reconstruct how the perception of Atatürk was transformed during a time of profound political change.
KW  - reforms, birth of a new nation, European standards, Atatürk‘s character, naming
LA  - English
ER  -