Characteristics of the Turkish Nation

Afet Inan asked Ataturk for help on "Characteristics of the Turkish Nation", which his teacher, the Swiss anthropologist Professor Eugène Pittard , gave him as his doctoral thesis .

Ataturk; He said that Afet Inan should write his own views first and express his ideas later. In response to Afet Inan's long work, Atatürk made his own definition in pencil on two small note papers:

"This country has become a high stage for the high manifestation of an exceptional presence that the world never expected and never hoped for. This stage is a Turkish cradle that is at least seven thousand years old. The cradle was swayed by the winds of nature. The child in the cradle was washed by nature's rains. That child is as if afraid of nature's lightning, lightning and hurricanes. "The father of nature recognized them and became their son. One day, that child of nature became nature; he became lightning, lightning, the sun; he became a Turk. This is a Turk. It is lightning, it is a hurricane, it is the sun that illuminates the world."

Kemal Ataturk