Millions of people came to a standstill across Turkey today at 9:05 a.m., as sirens across the country sounded in unison to remember the exact moment when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, died in 1938 at 57 years of age. Although Atatürk died in a room in the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, his body was transferred days later to the new capital of the country, Ankara, where in 1953 he was buried in his current mausoleum, Anıtkabir.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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