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Describe your favourite personality from the world history. Discuss his/her character traits and deeds. Explain
why you admire him/her.


       
I admire people who are ready to do anything in the name of their nation and country and who also fight for world peace. So many names can be given from the world history who did all that for their national security.
         My favorite personality from the world history is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He was born in the Ottoman city of Salonika in the spring of 1881. He was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President.86 As the first President of Turkey, Atatürk embarked upon a major programme of political, economic and cultural reforms. An admirer of the Enlightenment, Atatürk sought to transform the ruins of the Ottoman Empire into a modern, democratic, secular, nation-state.
 Kemal's foreign policy was aligned with his motto " peace at home and peace in the world ".His perception of peace was not simply the absence of war but linked to his project of civilazation an modernization. One of his goals was to improve the status of Turkish women and integrate them thoroughly into the society. He linked the education reform to the liberation of the nation from the dogma, which he believed was even more important than the Turkish war of independence. He believed in the supreme importance of culture; which he expressed with the phrase " culture is the foundation of the Turkish Republic ".
 Another interesting fact which I like about him is that his second name Kemal ( meaning Perfection or Maturity ) was given to
him by his mathematic teacher in recognition of his academic excellence.
 Atatürk published many books an kept a personal journal. In 1981, the centennial of Atatürk's birth, the memory of Atatürk was honoured by United Nations and UNESCO, which declared it Ataturk's Year. His statues have been erected in numerous parks, streets and squares of many different countries in the world. The famous Madame Tussauds Museum in London has a wax statue of Atatürk.
        Such great people like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk deserve to be admired because they have realised the fact that the world will know peace when the power of love overcomes the love for power.
#1 - Mart 26 2008, 23:38:45
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