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Old 09-04-2012, 04:22 AM   #20
pumpineemob

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He wasn't Turkish? Wait, are you serious? What was his ethnicity then? Yeah, some say that he's not a Muslim, but wallahu a'lam.
Time magazine states that Mustafa Kemal's father was of Albanian and his mother was of Macedonian origin,[6] and Patrick Kinross wrote that he was "as fair as any Slav from beyond the Bulgarian frontier" with "fine white skin" and "eyes of a deep but clear light blue."[7] According to Encyclopaedia Judaica, one assertion that was commonly made by many Jews of Salonika was that Kemal Atatürk was of Doenmeh origin. This view was eagerly embraced by many of Atatürk’s religious opponents and denied by the Turkish government.[8] His father Ali Rıza is thought to be of Albanian origin.
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