A humble farmhouse in Thessaloniki was the birthplace of a modern nation
The secular Republic of Türkiye traces its origins to a modest pink house in Thessaloniki, where revolutionary leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Türkiye, was born in this three-story Ottoman house while Thessaloniki was still under imperial rule. This residence served as the childhood home for the visionary leader who would later dismantle the Ottoman Sultanate and introduce sweeping Westernizing reforms.
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