History The Ottoman Empire Questions
The establishment of the Republic of Turkey was led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish National Movement. It was a result of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the Turkish War of Independence, and the subsequent abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate. Atatürk and his supporters aimed to modernize and secularize Turkey, implementing a series of reforms that transformed the country into a republic in 1923.