Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and leader of the Republic of Türkiye, went down in history not only as the commander who successfully led the Turkish nation’s War of Independence but also as a statesman with groundbreaking revolutions. As is customary every November 10 in Türkiye, daily life stopped at 9.05 am local time, with sirens wailing to mark the exact moment of Ataturk’s death at age 57, and millions of people across the country observed two minutes of silence.
