@article{2014,title={Ataturk as a Human},abstractNode={Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is one of the most extraordinary persons that the history has ever witnessed. The first things that come to mind about him are his military skill, the man of reformations, his far-sightedness, and his being a statesman. However, along with these features given above, the things that he give importance to in his life as an ordinary person give some clues about why he is an an extraordinary person.For Ata-ürk, who deserved the great love of his own people,the first thing that he boasted about is the fact that he was born as a Turk. He experienced the pride of being a Turk taking it as his surname throughout his life. Atatürk, who tried to lead an aor-dinary life as a human, opened the way for people in the bureacracy so that they co-uld be promoted in accordance witj the skill he/she has got. He is open-hearted, the sort of person whose conversation is derived pleasure from, and he is not the person who looks down on people. When he hosted his quests, he would pay attention to every detail and host eac of them very seriously. Ataürk, who enjoyed listening to Turkish folk songs, especially the “Rumeli folk songs” would prefer tor ide a horse and spend time with his own friends.. The dominant characteristics of Atatürk was his credibility. He used toderive pleasure from showing great interest in his old fri-ends and dealing with their proplems when they had difficulties.In addition to the-se, he would do his best and support any person who asked for help from him. His close friends agree on the fact that he is a realist, cautious, bold but careful, a patriot and nationalist, but at the same time humanitarian, an excellent soldier but a person who knows how to be a civil, full of life and the person who worked very hard with great excitement.},author={Salim CÖHCE},year={2014},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}