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Atatürk: The Early Years
Mustafa, who became Mustafa Kemal as a teenager and then Mustafa Kemal Atatürk late in life, was born around in the city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece), which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire.
His family was middle-class, Turkish-speaking and Muslim.
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A good student, Mustafa Kemal attended a series of military schools, including the War College in Istanbul. He was then stationed in Syria and Palestine for a few years before securing a post back in Salonica. In and , the hard-drinking Mustafa Kemal fought against the Italians in Libya.
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The Turkish leader known as Atatürk had blue eyes and fair hair.
Kemal atatürk bornThough he claimed to be descended from Turkish nomads, some historians believe he was at least partly of Balkan ancestry.
During World War I (), the Ottoman Empire allied itself with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
By this time, the aging empire had lost almost all of its territory in Europe and Africa. Moreover, the so-called