Nationalism and Peace: The Signifiance of Atatürk's Movement

Authors : Oral S, - Er

Pages : 245-263

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000242

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Publication Date : 1980-05-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Atatürk is known throughout the world as a vietorious commander and leader who fought both against the invading Greek forees and the Entente Powers and as an able statesman who initiated unpreeedented reforms with the aim of transform'İng an underdeveloped, illiterate, and rural population into a developed, modern, and eivilized people. However, Atatürk's thoughts and aetions on peace, international understanding, and prerequisites for the ultimate sueeess of anti-imperialist movements in general are not widely known, at least outside of Turkey. The principal aim of this short essay is to try to elueidate these aspeets of Atatürk's thinking. it might then become possible to say that even taday, more than sixty years after the Turkish struggle, Atatürk's example of national liberation and eonstruetion is unsurpassed. 
Keywords : Nationalism, Peace, Signifiance