The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı), is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate Mustafa Kemal 's landing at Samsun on May 19, 1919, which is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence in the official historiography.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Father of Turks), founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 - November 10, 1938) was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President. Atatürk is one of the most iconic figures of the early 20th century.
Why was Kemal Atatürk important? Kemal Atatürk was founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, having galvanized the Turkish people after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. He implemented an ambitious program of modernization and broadly transformed the legal and social systems of Turkish life.
