Visionary / fore-sighted A visionary is ahead of his/her time.

Peacemaker A peacemaker helps solve a conflict.

A courageous and A courageous person faces danger.
patriotic commander A patriotic person loves his/her country.
Mentor A mentor reigns and guides people.
Lover of children A lover of children loves, gives importance to young generations, cares and protects them.
Nature lover and A nature lover or an environmentalist cares about, works for the well-being of fauna and
Environmentalist flora in nature, and also protects the environment.
Founder A founder is someone who establishes a country.
Liberator A liberator is someone who sets people free.
National savior A savior saves people.

MATCH THE TRAITS OF ATATÜRK WITH HIS QUOTES

1) Visionary: ___________

2) Equality: ___________

3) Lover of children: ___________

4) Courageous: ___________

5) Peacemaker: ___________

6) Mentor: ___________

7) Founder of the Republic: ___________

8) Environmentalist: ___________

9) Follower of science: ___________

10) Rely on law: ___________

a) “If you don’t have an ammunition, you have bayonets! Fix bayonets! Get down!”

b) “Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”

c) “The future is in the sky.”

d) “Sovereignty belongs to unconditionally to the people.”

e) “Little ladies and little gentlemen, all of you, are the roses, stars and glitters of happiness of our bright future.”

f) “Land without trees is not a homeland.”

g) “Peace at home, peace in the world.”

h) “Everything we see in the world is creative work of human.”

I) “Just is the base of a state/country.”

j) “Science is the truest guide in life.”

 ATATÜRK AND THE MOVING KIOSK PROJECT

The great leader Atatürk founded the Horticulture Central Research Institute in Yalova in 1929. His main aim
was to develop national farming effectively and efficiently, and also provide modern training to farmers. In that area,
there was an old oak tree that the founder liked a lot. In the same year, Atatürk commissioned the building of a kiosk
next to the tree. They build the kiosk. A year passed and the officials asked permission from Atatürk to cut some
branches of the oak tree. When Atatürk asked the reason, they said that the branches might damage the house.
Atatürk’s answer was “You cannot cut the branches of the tree so as to prevent the house from getting damaged,
but you will move the house to protect the tree from being cut.”

On Atatürk’s order, a technical team of IETT from İstanbul came to Yalova and moved the house about five
metres on rails. It was a first house in the world that the workers carried on rails. It set on example for other
countries as well. Sixty-eight years later, they carried a building in the USA by using a similar technique. Last summer
in Hasankeyf, Batman Turkish engineers and workers carried a tomb from Selchuk period too. People also watch
documentaries on Discovery Channel.,

Today this House is a world-known Museum which is asked for a nomination as a world heritage to the
United Nations (UN) and is visited by thousands of people every month.

1) Why did Atatürk found the Horticulture Central Research Institute in 1929?

2) What did he like a lot in Yalova?

3) What did Atatürk build there?

4) What did Atatürk order?

5) Who undertook this job?

Did you know?

*“Time” magazine featured Atatürk on its cover 2 times. The first one was on March 24th, 1923 and the
second one was on 21st February, 1927 issues and elected him as “the statesman of the century.

*Although he fought against Turkey in the past, Greek Prime Minister Venizelos wrote a letter to the Nobel
Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway in 1934 and nominated Atatürk for the Nobel Peace Prize.

*UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization) held an interntaional conference
in 1978 and decided to declare the centenary of Atatürk’s birth in 1981 as the “World Atatürk Year” unanimously.