This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

As a committee member, it was also the ideology of Ataturk, and ultimately of the so-called “Modern Turkish Republic.” In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” ...

A war hero even as the Ottoman Empire he served crumbled around him, Ataturk was instrumental in defeating an invading British army at Gallipoli. At the end of World War I, when the victorious ...

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pronounced or Kamâl Atatürk; 19 May 1881 by a posteriori–10 November 1938) was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman ...

This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) was one of the longest lasting and most ...

Ataturk had already played a prominent role in defeating British forces during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli. The British had failed to take the Ottoman sultan’s forces seriously. Gallipoli ...

By 1924, Turkey’s new leaders — chiefly the ruthlessly modernizing Mustafa Kemal Pasha, or Ataturk, as he’s widely remembered — had already dismantled the Ottoman sultanate in their ...

Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership. Read the transcript ...

From the Ottoman Empire to Ataturk’s Turkey (I.B. Tauris, 2010); and Ron Suny, "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton 2015). Some departments ...