The son of a customs official and lumber merchant, he rose to power by riding the wave of popular discontent caused by the Treaty of Sevres, which gave Greek soldiers control over cities like Dumlupinar, Sakarya, and Izmir - all of which were won back by armies under his command, gains cemented by the 1923 Conference of Lausanne.  
The son of a customs official and lumber merchant, he rose to power by riding the wave of popular discontent caused by the Treaty of Sevres, which gave Greek soldiers control over cities like Dumlupinar, Sakarya, and Izmir - all of which were won back by armies under his command, gains cemented by the 1923 Conference of Lausanne.  A participant in the Gallipoli campaign, his political reforms included an overhaul of the legal codes, the introduction of Western-style surnames, and the removal a constitutional provision naming Islam as state religion.  FTP, name this 20th century Turkish statesman.
The son of a customs official and lumber merchant, he rose to power by riding the wave of popular discontent caused by the Treaty of Sevres, which gave Greek soldiers control over cities like Dumlupinar, Sakarya, and Izmir - all of which were won back by armies under his command, gains cemented by the 1923 Conference of Lausanne.  
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk