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Sadabat Pakti

« The policy of friendship and closeness that the Republican Government has been following in the east has taken a new strong step. The quadrilateral agreement that we signed with our friends Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran in Sadabad is one of the remarkable works of peace with great pleasure. We are confident that the cooperation between the governments of the states gathered around this treaty, which pursues the same goal and sincerely wishes for peaceful development, will yield beneficial results in the future. »

01.11.1937, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Opening the 5th Term 3rd Meeting Year.

HEALTH

« Health, strength, strength of the nation, its youth, children; It is a very necessary work that we are on… »

01.11.1934, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Opening the 4th Term 4th Meeting Year.

ART

« A nation without art breaks one of its lifebloods. »

16.03.1923, Conversation with Adana Craftsmen.

« Some foundations are necessary to keep a nation alive, and you know that one of the most important of these foundations is art… »

16.03.1923, Conversation with Adana Craftsmen.

« …If a nation does not give importance to art, it is doomed to a great disaster… »

16.03.1923, Conversation with Adana Craftsmen.

ARTIST

« Here, the artist is the first person to feel the light on his forehead after long studies and efforts in society. »

(1932)

“The simplest of art is the most honorable. Shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, saddlers, blacksmiths, blacksmiths are the most worthy of respect and dignity in our social and military life. »

03.04.1922, Konya, Military Farrier School.

« … Let me just say that it is not enough to train individual artists for nations. If people work individually, they cannot be successful.

…As the first truth, we understand that if it is desired to progress confidently in any art, people in the same profession and art must take a cooperative form… »

16.03.1923, Conversation with Adana Craftsmen.

« If a nation is deprived of art and artists, it cannot have a full life. Such a nation is like a person with a lame foot, a lame arm, a crippled and sick person… »

16.03.1923, Conversation with Adana Craftsmen.

« Gentlemen. You can all be deputies… you can be a deputy… even a president; but you cannot be an artist. Let's love children who dedicate their lives to a great art. »

1927, in the Çankaya Mansion, at the banquet where the artists of the City Theater were invited.

INDUSTRY

« Industrialization is among our greatest national causes. »

As the Fifth Term Opens the Third Year of Gathering. 01. 11. 1937.

FORTUNE

«  The legitimate way to wealth is to work and save with knowledge and self-sacrifice. »

(1930)

TREATY OF SEVR

« In our opinion, the Treaty of Sèvres, which aims to destroy our political, judicial, economic and financial independence, and consequently to deny and abolish our right to life, does not exist… »

17.01.1921, Statement to United Telgraph Correspondent.

CINEMA

«  Cinema is such a discovery that one day it will be seen that it will change the aspect of world civilization rather than the discovery of gunpowder, electricity and books. Cinema will ensure that people living at the farthest ends of the world get to know and love each other. Cinema will erase the differences of opinion and appearance between people, and will make the greatest contribution to the realization of the ideal of humanity. We must give cinema the importance it deserves. »

(1930)

POLITICAL LIFE

« I see with satisfaction that we are together on the basis of a secular republic. In fact, this is the basis that I have always sought and will seek in my political life as a one-sided. »

12.08.1930

POLITICAL PARTY

“The existence of political parties is natural in countries that are based on national sovereignty and have a republican administration. There is no doubt that parties that control each other will arise in the Republic of Turkey.

11.12.1924, Answer to Written Questions of the Times' Istanbul Correspondent.

TABLE ART

« Lords! Table arrangement, table service is really important. It is one of our most important needs. The main reason for this is metrohotels and waiters. I regret to say that this kind of artisans have not been raised in our country in the appropriate style and quantity. We have to do this in our homes, restaurants and hotels in a way that befits civilized people… »

03.10.1925, Third Speech in Bursa.

SPORT

« We have not yet reached the European level. It is necessary to pursue a single and clear goal in sports. We will either do sports for propaganda or we will do it to ensure our physical maturation. »

On the information given by Ali Sami (Yen) Bey at the Ankara Türkocağı Meeting, 16.08.1923.

« Lords; Sports life and sports environment are very important in the world. I don't see the need to explain this to you experts. Sports life, which is so important, is more important to us. Because it's a race issue. It is a matter of race recovery and development. It is a matter of selection and even a matter of civilization… »

30.09.1926, Speech to the delegation on behalf of the Çankaya Presidential Palace, Turkey Training Associations Alliance Congress.

“…Turkish sportsmanship will gain the place it deserves in the international arena. Then, Turkish sportsmanship will be a sign of civilization as well as being effective in the life of the country and nation, and perhaps more than I expected. »

30.09.1926, Speech to the delegation on behalf of the Çankaya Presidential Palace, Turkey Training Associations Alliance Congress.

ATHLETE

« I like the athlete's smart, agile and at the same time moral. »

(1937)

STALİN

«  In the next hundred years, when the reputation of all other dictators has faded, history will choose Stalin as the most important statesman of his contemporaries, both in Europe and internationally in the Twentieth Century. »

October 1937, told to Ernest Jackh.

SULTANATE

« The spirit of the nation, which was thought to be drowned by the sultans, was revived by breaking the crown and throne of the sultanate… »

05.02.1924, Speaking to Journalists in Izmir.

« ...The sultanate is an administration based on fear and threat... Since the sultanate is based on fear and threat, it raises cowardly, humiliated, miserable, disgraced people... »

14.10.1925, A Speech at Izmir Girls' Teachers' School.

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