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 Paper

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