Ataturk Research Paper

Throughout the long history of world we have quite seen the leader types, some soft some rigid, dictators especially, Stalin, Hitler, Garibaldi, who are known for massive deaths, and severely strict rules in their country. Dictator, a leader who gives orders and behaves as if they have complete power (dictionary.cambridge.org). Dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations, a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises. Resorting force and fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintained through the use of intimidation, terror and the suppression of basic civic liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support (EBSCOHost.com). When it comes to the word dictator it creates the inferior thoughts …show more content…
In a series of brilliant maneuvers and diplomacy, he gradually pushed out all the European occupiers, won support for the cause of Turkish nationhood throughout the country, preserved Turkish sovereignty in all of the Anatolia landmass, and demanded to be respected on equal terms of the old Empire, and Ataturk was able to proclaim, in 1923, the new Republic of Turkey. He lead the new government as President and them Prime Minister, during his time Turkey was still a medieval country in many respects. It had been ruled by an absolute monarch for centuries. Ataturk, the new president seized the moment to radically modernize virtually every aspect of the moribund society. His unquestioned prestige and power as a successful and nationalistic military leader allowed him to proceed with little resistance.