Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to secure a place alongside Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the pantheon of great and transformative Turkish leaders, but critics accuse him of undermining ...

A documentary that portrays the revered founder of modern Turkey as a lonely womanizer with a weakness for alcohol and cigarettes is drawing massive crowds but outraging hardline followers of Mustafa ...

Bitola, North Macedonia, holds a special place in the history of modern Turkey as the place where Ataturk attended high school. While in North Macedonia recently for a conference, I took a trip by car ...

Whenever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a rally in the campaign for a new presidential system, a picture of a smartly-dressed man with a piercing gaze hangs next to his own giant ...

circa 1925: Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), born Mustafa Kemal in Salonika. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) circa 1925: Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938), born ...

Türkiye’s Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy on Sunday inaugurated the restored Ataturk House in Thessaloniki, a Greek port city on the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, saying that paying ...

AMONG the nation-builders of the past century, Kemal Ataturk stands out. Those hopeful creations, Masaryk's Czechoslovakia and Tito's Yugoslavia are gone. Sukarno in Indonesia, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam ...

The age-old European tendency to refer to the Ottoman Empire as “Turkey” obscures how revolutionary a change it was when remnants of that venerable empire became the Republic of Turkey following World ...