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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Monument, Mexico City
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Monument ( es, Estatua de Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) is a monument located on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico's capital, Mexico City. Description It consists of the depiction of the crescent and star on the Turkish flag with the statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and made of white marble. The statue of Atatürk is 3.2 m in length and weighing approximately 1.5 tonnes. History Although it was completed by Azerbaijani sculptor Səid Rüstəm in 2000 with the initiative of the Confederation of Employers' Unions of Turkey, the erection of the statue to the relevant region was delayed due to various reasons. Due to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, it was opened with a ceremony on 29 October 2003. Labor and Social Security Minister Murat Başesgioğlu, National Defence Minister Vecdi Gönül, and State Minister Güldal Akşit also attended the ceremony from Turkey. References Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paseo De La Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma (translated as "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Second Mexican Empire and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Ringstraße in Vienna and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The planned grand avenue was to link the National Palace with the imperial residence, Chapultepec Castle, which was then on the southwestern edge of town. The project was originally named Paseo de la Emperatriz ("Promenade of the Empress") in honor of Maximilian's consort Empress Carlota. After the fall of the Empire and Maximilian's subsequent execution, the Restored Republic renamed the Paseo in honor of the La Reforma. It is now home to many of Mexico's tallest buildings such as the Torre Mayor and others in the Zona Rosa. More modern extensions continue the avenue at an angle to the old Paseo. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, his death in 1938. He undertook sweeping progressive Atatürk's reforms, reforms, which modernized Turkey into a secular, industrializing nation.Harold Courtenay Armstrong Gray Wolf, Mustafa Kemal: An Intimate Study of a Dictator. page 225 Ideologically a Secularism, secularist and Turkish nationalism, nationalist, Atatürk's Reforms, his policies and socio-political theories became known as Kemalism. Due to his military and political accomplishments, Atatürk is regarded as one of the most important political leaders of the 20th century. Ata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. One of the world's Globalization and World Cities Research Network, alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban area, urban agglomeration in the Weste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Turkey
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag ( tr, Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent. The flag is often called "the red flag" (), and is referred to as "the red banner" () in the Turkish national anthem. The current Turkish flag is directly derived from the late Ottoman flag, which had been adopted in the late 18th century and acquired its final form in 1844. The measures, geometric proportions, and exact tone of red of the flag of Turkey were legally standardized with the Turkish Flag Law on 29 May 1936. History The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century. The white star and crescent moon on red as the flag of the Ottoman Empire was introduced 1844. After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new administrative regime maintained the last flag of the Ottoman Empire. Proportional standardizations were introduced in the Turkish Flag Law of 1936. Legenda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neolithic sites like Göbekli Tepe, and was inhabited by ancient civilisations including the Hattians, Hittites, Anatolian peoples, Mycenaea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milliyet
''Milliyet'' ( Turkish for "''nationality''") is a Turkish daily newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. History and profile ''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 May 1950. Its owner was Ali Naci Karacan. After his death in 1955 the paper was published by his son, Encüment Karacan. For a number of years the person who made his mark on the paper as the editor in chief was Abdi İpekçi. İpekçi managed to raise the standards of the Turkish press by introducing his journalistic criteria. On 1 February 1979, İpekçi was murdered by Mehmet Ali Ağca, who would later attempt to assassinate the Pope John Paul II. ''Milliyet'' is published in broadsheet format. In 2001 ''Milliyet'' had a circulation of 337,000 copies. According to comScore, ''Milliyet'''s website is the fifth most visited news website in Europe. Ownership In 1979 the founding Karacan family sold the paper to Aydın Doğan. Erdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murat Başesgioğlu
Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955) is a Turkish politician who was a Minister of State of Turkey and Member of the Turkish Parliament for Kastamonu for the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AK Party). Biography Başesgioğlu was born in Kastamonu. He completed his primary and secondary education at Isfendiyar Bey primary school in Kastamonu. He later graduated in law from Istanbul University and has previously been member of parliament for the centre-right ANAP and the minister of the interior. After graduating, in 1984, he worked as a freelance lawyer for seven years and was registered to the Kastamonu Bar Council. Having resigned from ANAP he joined the AK Party. He also resigned from Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi in 2010 due to opposition to the party's parliamentary policies. He later went and joined the Nationalist Movement Party on 28 January 2011. In the 2011 General Elections and the 2015 General Elections, he was elected as Istanbul deputy from the MHP. He can speak F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vecdi Gönül
Mehmet Vecdi Gönül (; born 29 November 1939) is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of National Defense from 3 July to 17 November 2015. He previously served in the same position from 2002 to 2011 and was a member of the Parliament from 1999 to 2015.Biography Turkish Ministry of Defence. Gönül first entered Parliament following the 1999 general election for Kocaeli from the Islamist Virtue Party (FP). He joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2011 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güldal Akşit
Güldal Akşit (; 23 January 1960 – 3 December 2021) was a Turkish politician and the President of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women. Biography Güldal Akşit was born in Malatya on 23 January 1960. Her father was a politician, Galip Demirel. She attended the Foreign Languages School of Hacettepe University. Then she graduated from Istanbul University's Faculty of Law. She was elected as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, representing Istanbul, and served from 2002 to 2011. She was the minister of culture and tourism in the cabinet of Abdullah Gül and in the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Akşit was the head of the AKP women's branch and interested in women's rights. Akşit was married and had no children. She died from COVID-19 in Ankara on 3 December 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey The COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monuments And Memorials To Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Outside Turkey
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Some of the first monuments were dolmens or menhirs, megalithic constructions built for religious or funerary purposes. Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural assets. If there is a public interest in its preservation, a monument can for example be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Etymology It is believed that the origin of the word "monument" comes from the Greek ''mnemosynon'' and the Latin ''moneo'', ''monere'', which means 'to remind', 'to advise' or 'to warn', however, it is also believed that the word monument originates from an Albanian word 'mani men' which in Albanian language means 'rememb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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