Current: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Authors
Williams, Jan
Issue Date
1992
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first President of Turkey, is widely considered
the most significant character in Turkish history. He is renowned in his
homeland as Washington, Lincoln, and Kennedy are, as a group, in the
United States. His leadership helped to spawn the Young Turk Revolution,
which after World War I overthrew the old and diffuse Ottoman Empire.
Atatürk was a pivotal character in world history and a Founding Father of the
Twentieth century.
This thematic biography is divided into three parts based upon Atatürk's
age. Each section is distinguished by its themes. Through the separation,
various issues surrounding his life evolve as he, too, grows older. For
example, Part I's punctuation is confined to periods and commas. The storytelling
here is simple, and does not need the pace of other syntax. But as he
matures and nears Part TI, periods and commas are prodded by dashes, colons,
and semi-colons. The second part's style is an industrial tempo: hydraulic
pause in the colon; an assembly-line of semi-colons; and the hot, branding
dash. Dashes become the primary punctuation of Part III, and point toward
his death and the end of the sentence--to the period.
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iv, 60 p.
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