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Kemal AtatÃ¼rk (1881-1938) Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, c. 1916 Â© AtatÃ¼rk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey. Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant.