Death of Atatürk
1938 · Event
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, dies; İsmet İnönü succeeds him.
On these timelines: Atatürk and the Birth of Modern Turkey, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master
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