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It is truly amazing that each passing day appears to strengthen theimage of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. New generations of Turks are growingwith ever increasing veneration for Atatürk. He outshines anybody in thefirmament of Turkey.One ready answer is Mustafa Kemal's courage in the battlefield.When the nation laid prostrate under the jackboots of the British, theFrench, the Italian and the Greek, Mustafa Kemal took to the mountainsand roused his people to take up arms. He provided brilliant leadershipand galvanized his entire nation to unparalleled heroism. The last Greeksoldier vvas throvvn into the Aegean sea, the English and the Australianfound their graveyard in the Dardanelles. The nation vvhich had neverknovvn defeat vvould not take defeat lying dovvn for long.Out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire rose modern Turkey.Atatürk's nevv slogan became "Peace at home and Peace in the vvorld".Novv vvas the time for nation building. Novv vvas the time to give the nationpermanent orientation. Revolutionary reforms came in quick succession.It vvas judiciary, it vvas education, it vvas the alphabet, it vvas thevvholesale import of vvestern lavvs, it vvas the permanent banishment ofShariah lavvs and most important of ali it vvas secularism. These revolutionarychanges vvithin the Turkish society have found their place in thehearts and minds of people. It is no vvonder that veneration for this greatleader does not diminish vvith passing days but rather grovv. Mustafa KemalAtatürk is reaching the status of timelessness.Mustafa Kemal Atatürk left his legacy vvith the youth of Turkey.Like the renevval of earth begins vvith the advent of spring, the humankind is renevved by the advent of youth. By bequeathing his revolutionvvith the youth, Atatürk has made it sure that it vvill alvvays remain in safehands.It has been a fascinating journey through life vvith Turkey of MustafaKemal Atatürk. I am proud to record here that there is an element of timelessnessin the relations betvveen Bangladesh and Turkey. Our nationalpoet Kazi Nazrul islam vvas ecstasic vvith the victory of Atatürk in 1921,vvhen nobody had heard of Mustafa Kemal. It is this spiritual bond that isgoing to be everlasting. No povver on earth can shake this bond betvveenTurkey and Bangladesh. ends.739