Only the delayed shriek of jet formations broke the silence. Then cannon began to boom at five-minute intervals as Kemal Ataturk, the Father of the Turks—dead 15 years this day—began his last ...

Turkey kicked off its 90th anniversary Tuesday with a ceremony at the mausoleum of the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Turkish pronunciation: ; indeterminate ...

In his 13 years as leader, he has broadened his party's appeal ... charts its origins back to Turkey's modern secular founder Kemal Ataturk. It was long considered close to the military, which ...