Memorable Encounters with Atatuerk

The book is a collection of memoirs related to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The recollections of 27 people who met Ataturk in person reflect the environment in which they grew up. The accounts of their childhood during the founding period of the Turkish Republic provide a wealth of information enabling historians to reconstruct how the perception of Ataturk was transformed during a time of profound political change.