1. Born in Ottoman Salonica

    · Atatürk Birth House, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Born in Ottoman Salonica
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    Mustafa Kemal was born in Salonica, the cosmopolitan Ottoman port now called Thessaloniki. The birth year is accepted as 1881, but the precise day and month are unknown.

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