Atatürk's handwritten notes are coming to light
From ATASE (Department of Military History) and starting from April 20, 2020, a total of 8 collections, including the Atatürk Collection for which the classification process has been completed, have been made available to researchers at the Presidential State Archives.
- Turkey
- Published Date: 10:15 | 29 August 2023
- Modified Date: 10:19 | 29 August 2023
Among the documents are also the brief notes of the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Central Asian Turkish history, Huns, Göktürks, and Uighurs that he took in 1907.
Atatürk's compilation includes information on topics ranging from the Göktürk Inscriptions to the Eastern Turks, the lifestyle of the Turks, their arrival in the Caucasus and Anatolia, and the establishment of the first Turkish states. It's notable that he compiled this information using Ottoman Turkish and occasionally Latin letters.
Notes from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's speech in the Parliament are also in the archives. Another document authored by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk includes his notes regarding the speech he delivered upon being re-elected as the President of the Republic of Türkiye for the second time.
Professor Dr. Köse stated that in Atatürk's notes, he emphasized the existence of the Republic, the high interests of the nation, and the readiness to defend against any internal or external events at any moment.