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ties, coats, vve shall even wear a hat! By wearing a fez we were stayingoutside the whole world. Look at the Turkish and Müslim vvorld. You seethem suffer because they accept the changes required by the life of thevvorld..."That simple message of his to "accept the changes requiredby the vvorld life" is valid even today, at the end of the 20thcentury.It vvould therefore be logical and beneficial that co-operationbetvveen Yugoslavia and Turkey and their citizens should intensify also inthese times, so unfortunate for the Serb people and challenging for ali theEuropean peoples. The goal and essence of that cooperation has beendetermined by Atatürk. The importance of his profound reforms, byvvhich he led his young state into the civilization circle of the Westernvvorld, is universal. That is vvhy Atatürk's personality has been so highlyesteemed in Yugoslavia. That esteem has been multiple, related both torespect of Atatürk as the leading statesman of a Balkan country close toYugoslavia and to great sympathies for a great man vvho broughtrenaissance upon the Turkish nation and vvas knovvn and accepted by thepublic of his time as a devoted friend of Yugoslavia and "blood-brother"of King Alexander. The best evidence of that are numerous texts thatappeared in the Yugoslav press upon Atatürk's demişe.Atatürk and his legacy are not only an integral part of the Turkishhistory, but also an organic part of the Turkish people. That giant of themilitary and political struggle also possessed a genius for education andbequeathed ali his possessions for the studies of the Turkish culture,language and history, knovving that vvithout a national renaissance troughthe language and culture neither the military or political successes couldbe maintained. He vvas therefore fully right to say in a historic speech onOctober 29th, 1933 on the occasion of the lOth anniversary ofproclamation of the Republic of Turkey the follovving: "One can feellucky to be able to say-1 am a Turk".I shall end this brief and simple account on Atatürk by appealing tothis audience to take it as an expression of my personal respect for Kemalpasha - the gray vvolf, as English captain B.C. Armstrong used to calihim, for gazi Mustafa Kemal - pasha, a fighter and a reformist, forMustafa Kemal Atatürk "the father of ali Turks", vvhom the vvorld historysee among the greatest politicians of the 20th century.I honestly hope that the Serb and Turkish people vvill againco-operate upon not "staying outside the vvorld", as Atatürk used to say,839