Atatürk Centennial Explained

The Atatürk Centennial was celebrated in Turkey and the Turkish Government organized and supported a series of events, symposiums or conferences in several countries. The centennial of his birth was also honored by the UNESCO in November 1978 by adopting a Resolution on the Atatürk Centennial in which it decided to cooperate with the Turkish Government in the organization of events in memory of the Centennial.^[1] The centennial was celebrated officially between the 19 May 1981 and the 19 May 1982, but the congresses and conferences which were organized in Atatürk's memory stretched through a larger time span.^[2] A considerable amount of scholars published books about his achievements.^[3]

Congresses and conventions organized in his memory

• November 1980, The Atatürk International Conference organized by the Boğaziçi University with Afet İnan and Turhan Feyzioğlu as speakers among others
• April 1981, The Ankara University Faculty of Education
  • April 1981, The Atatürk Symposium at the Turkish Naval Academy in Istanbul May 1981, The Atatürk Conference organized by the Ministry of Energy and Turkish Petroleum
• May 1981, The Second International Atatürk Conference at the Istanbul University with speakers Frank Tachau, François Georgeon, Sadi Irmak and Kemal Karpat among others
• May 1981, International Symposium on Atatürk organized by the Işbank with speakers Dankwart Rustow, Jerzy Wiatr, and William Hale among others
• May 1981, on Turkish Art and Architecture at the University of Chicago
• October 1981, Atatürk International Research Conference in College of Charleston, with Talat Halman as speaker among others
• October 1981, Atatürk's Turkey Conference organized by the American Turkish Society and the University of New York City with Bernard Lewis and J. C. Hurewitz as speakers among others
• October 1981, Atatürk Centennial Symposium organized by the University of Toronto with speakers Talat Halman and Kemal Karpat as speakers
• October 1981, Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey organized by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with speakers Jacob Landau, Frank Tachau and William Hale as speakers
• November 1981, International Atatürk Symposium organized by the UNESCO with speakers Dankwart Rustow, Sarvepalli Gopal and S.N. Eisenstadt

References

1. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001140/114032e.pdf
2. Danforth. Sandra C.. Tachau. Frank. 1982. Scholarly Meetings held in Commemoration held of the Atatürk Centennial. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 16. 2. 1–13. 10.1017/S0026318400011627 . 23057674 . 164305255 . 0026-3184. JSTOR.
3. Landau. Jacob. 1982. New works about Atatürk (Review Article). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes . 75 . 183–192 . live. 2021-07-05 . 23868557 . en. https://web.archive.org/web/20210709224745/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23868557?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior:8f9746b8e61f27d237530f74c4c78ceb&seq=1 . 2021-07-09 .