Noun
Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)
Source: WordNetSZ also recalls that Hagia Sophia, a symbol of Byzantium with a history of more than 1.500 years, was turned into a mosque after the fall of Constantinople by the Ottomans, while in 1935, under Kemal Ataturk, it was turned into a museum. Source: Internet