This founder of the Republican People's Party became a celebrity when his pocket watch saved him from a flying piece of shrapnel at Gallipolli, where his defense against ANZAC
This founder of the Republican People's Party became a celebrity when his pocket watch saved him from a flying piece of shrapnel at Gallipolli, where his defense against ANZAC forces earned him a promotion to colonel. In a later role, his "Six Arrows" replaced Arabic letters with the Latin alphabet, banned polygamy, and ordered the fez replaced with European-style hats, as part of his drive to secularize the remnants of the Ottoman Empire. For 20 points, identify this man who was thus given a name meaning "father of the Turks."
This founder of the Republican People's Party became a celebrity when his pocket watch saved him from a flying piece of shrapnel at Gallipolli, where his defense against ANZAC forces earned him a promotion to colonel.
{Ataturk} [or {Mustafa} Kemal Pasha {Ataturk}; prompt on {Mustafa}]