Mustafa Kemal Ataturk :: Biographies Bio Biography

FOUNDER AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE TURKISH REPUBLICAtatrk was born(p) in 1881 at the Kocakasm ward of Salonika, in a ternion story pink house located on Islahhane Street. His father is Ali Rza Efendi and his mother Zbeyde Hanm. His paternal grandfather, Hafz Ahmed Efendi belonged to the Kocack nomads who were settled in Macedonia during the XIV - XV th centuries. His mother Zbeyde Hanm was the fille of an Old Turkish family who had settled in the town of Langasa near Salonika. Ali Rza Efendi, who worked as militia officer, title deed clerk and lumber trader, married Zbeyde Hanm in 1871. Four of the 5 siblings of Atatrk died at earlyish ages and only one sister, Makbule (Atadan) survived, and lived until 1956.Upon reaching school age, little Mustafa started school at the neighborhood classes of Hafz Mehmet Efendi and later, with his fathers choice, was transferred to emsi Efendi School. He lost his father in 1888 where upon he stayed at the farm of his maternal uncle for a wh ile and returned to Salonika to complete his studies. He registered at the Salonika Mlkiye Rtiye (secondary school) and soon transferred to the military Rtiye. musical composition at this school, his math teacher, also named Mustafa, added Kemal to his name. He accompanied the Manastr armament School between 1896 - 1899 and later the Military School in stanbul from which he graduated in 1902 with the rank of lieutenant. He later entered the Military academy and graduated on January 11, 1905 with the rank of major. Between 1905 - 1907 he was stationed in capital of Syria with the 5th. Army. In 1907 he was promoted to the rank of Kolaas (senior major) and was posted with the triad rd Army , which was stationed in Manastr. He was the Staff stancer of the Special serviceman (Hareket Ordusu) which entered stanbul on April 19, 1909. He was sent to Paris in 1910 where he attended the Picardie manuevers. In 1911 he started to work at the General Staff Office in stanbul.Mustafa Kemal w as stationed at Tobruk and Derne regions with a group of his friends during the war which started with the Italian approaching on Tripoli. He won the Tobruk battle in 22 declination 1911 against the Italians. On March 6, 1912 he was made the Commander of Derne.When the Balkan War started in October 1912, Mustafa Kemal joined the battle with units from Gallipoli and Bolayr.