The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence. This nation has never lived without freedom, cannot and never will.


We, Turks are a people who, throughout our history, have been the very embodiment of freedom and independence.

Mustafa Kemal ATATURK

(The best leader of the world's)

(1881-193∞)

Atatürk reminds us of one of this century’s greatest human successes, a leadership that gives inspiration to the Turkish people,a foresighted understanding of the modern world and his power and great courage as a military leader. The birth of a free Turkey out of a collapsing empire, the honorable proclamation of a New Turkey’s sovereignty and independence and its preservation since then is the work of Atatürk’s Turkish people. Without doubt, there’s no other example like his deep-rooted and broad-based revolutions in Turkey that demonstrate the confidence of the crowds in him.

John F.KENNEDY
(U.S. President, November 10, 1963)