Abstract

One of the least known characteristics of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is his authorship and journalism. As far as we can tell, he is a writer who wrote 14 different books. Until he reached to the level of his competence, he has developed a great passion for reading. After his student years, he fed his world of thought by reading many books written on sociology, culture, education, history and literature. Among the books he wrote, as well as focusing military topics, the one he explained very important concepts for contemporary democracy comes forward. He wrote a book translating geometric terms into Turkish, literally inventing new words. He also wro-te out many of his memories. Besides that, he was very influential in the emergence of the newspapers Minbar, İrade-i Milliye and Hakimiyet-i Mil-liye. He also wrote for Minber under various names as a ghost writer. The purpose of this article is to reveal this little-known characteristics of Mustafa Kemal.

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