This leader developed the pseudo-scientific Sun Language Theory, which conveniently proposed that an ancestor of his country's language was actually the origin of all the world's languages.
This leader developed the pseudo-scientific Sun Language Theory, which conveniently proposed that an ancestor of his country's language was actually the origin of all the world's languages. This man's country was allowed to regulate passage on a key body of water by the Montreux Convention. The Great Fire of Smyrna began after his troops recaptured the city, and he expelled over one million ethnic Greeks from his country the following year. As (*) president, he introduced a new Latin alphabet for his country's language and promoted the Six Arrows ideology, which enforced strict separation of church and state and banned the wearing of the fez. In 1920, he helped establish a new capital at Ankara. For 10 points, name this founder and first president of modern Turkey.
This leader developed the pseudo-scientific Sun Language Theory, which conveniently proposed that an ancestor of his country's language was actually the origin of all the world's languages.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk [accept either underlined name]