![]() He made his military reputation repelling the Allied invasion at the Dardanelles in 1915. In 1911, he served against the Italians in Libya and then in the Balkan Wars (1912 - 1913). When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905. ![]() His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. © Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and founder and first president of the republic of Turkey.
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