Atatürk II 1881 – 1919

7/18/2025

"Ataturk II offers up a gripping insight into the life and events,surrounding the man most credited with creating the modern secular Turkish state. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was both a soldier and a politician over the course of his life. This film focuses on what is arguably the most tumultuous period of his life, including the Gallipoli campaign of world war one, that made Ataturk a household name, setting him on the path to national leadership. What I did applaud and its to this films credit it is does not glorify war. Quite the contrary. It depicts war in all its bleak brutality. It offers insights into how the war impacted on Ataturk, with what is probably his most famous and moving speech, surprisingly not only to the memory of his fallen comrades but those they fought. Its mad