Message for November 10 Atatürk's Commemoration Day from MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli

MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli commemorated Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, with a message issued on the 88th anniversary of his passing.

MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli issued a message for November 10 Atatürk's Commemoration Day, announcing that he commemorated Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and the leader of the War of Independence, with respect, mercy, and gratitude on the 88th anniversary of his passing. In his message, Bahçeli stated, "I commemorate our heroic martyrs together with the heroes of the National Struggle with feelings of respect and gratitude, and I pray for God's mercy upon all of them.".

Stating that Atatürk's Commemoration Day is very valuable for the state and the nation, Bahçeli emphasized that understanding the elements that make today valuable correctly is at least as important as the commemoration day itself. Noting that the right way to keep Atatürk alive is to protect his work and develop his ideas by interpreting them with the realities of the age, the MHP leader recorded that this will form the basis for policies appropriate to the spirit of the time.

Bahçeli stated that placing Atatürk's founding philosophy, state wisdom, and basic principles at the center of activities in every aspect as the Turkish nation is the healthiest way to understand him. In his statement, he evaluated, "To understand him means to correctly grasp political, social, cultural, and economic events and to make the existence will of our state and nation strong."