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PRAYER

“Would the aim of this movement be incomprehensible if the preaching and admonition of the innocent people to pray more at night besides the five daily prayers were made by a politician who has perhaps never prayed in his life? »

15/20.10.1927, Speech.

NAPOLEON

« …I don't like Napoleon at all. Because Napoleon put himself in everything. His struggle was not for a particular cause; it was for himself. It is in this respect that the unavoidable disaster for such men suffered… »

01/23/1923, Conversation with Morning Post Writer Grace Ellison.

“…Napoleon does not care for me but other soldiers. »

01/23/1923, Conversation with Morning Post writer Grce Ellison.

« … Napoleon started to work without relying on a fundamental idea and adapted to the course of events, which he thought would create an opportunity for himself. His act in this way caused the body of democracy to be delayed for sixty years; We can say… »

30.11.1929, Statement to the Vossishe Zeitung Correspondent.

NEFER (SOLDIER)

« The heroic Turkish soldier understood the meaning of the Anatolian battles and fought with a new ideal. »

(1921)

« …Our country is the homeland of two things: one is the farmer, the other is the soldier. We are a nation that produces very good farmers and very good soldiers. We have raised good farmers: because we have many lands, we have trained good soldiers: because there are many enemies defecting to those lands. You are the ones who plow those lands and protect those lands… »

18.03.1923, Talking to Farmers in Tarsus.

« This is the greatest military service: it must calculate the various possibilities very well, and quickly implement the one that looks best. »

(1924)

“I like the craftsmanship of the military more than anything else. »

(1912)

POPULATION LAW

« The adoption and implementation of the new Population Law submitted to the approval of the Grand National Assembly will serve to ensure that the population affairs are carried out in a more modern and orderly manner. »

Speech read by Deputy Prime Minister Celal Bayar on behalf of Atatürk at the opening of the 5th Term 4th Meeting of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, 01.11.1938.

CENSUS

(TAHRIR-I POPULATION)

« Gentlemen, the population issue is one of the most important vital issues of a country. As much as it is necessary to know the real number of the country's population in administrative, military, financial and economic matters, it is clear that it will not be possible to take measures to maintain the reasons for the increase and to eliminate the reasons for the decrease without understanding the amount of increase or decrease in the population with the statistics to be made every year. There is therefore a very urgent and definite need for a re-census."

01.03.1923, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Opening the Year of the 4th Meeting.

Source: Türk Kültürünü ve Tarihini Yaşatma Derneği. Daniel Dumoulin - Ali Kaman - Ece Develi - Hüseyin Develi