İsmet İnönü

İsmet İnönü
İsmet İnönü, 1962
President of the Republic of Turkey
Details
Date of Birth	24th September 1884
Place of Birth	Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Age at start	77
Nationality	Turkish
Role	President
Political Party	Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi
Ideology	Kemalism

Mustafa İsmet İnönü (Born 24 September 1884) is a Turkish Politician who has served as the President of Turkey since the death of Atatürk in 1938

In-Game Description

If Mustafa Kemal was the father of the Turks, then Ismet Inönü is their Godfather. What could suffice, to describe the life of the man whose very whims have defined the policies of nations, armies, and empires?

Born to a Kurdish father in Smyrna in the year 1884, and faced with the weight of an empire collapsing all around him, Inönü served the Ottoman army with distinction in Yemen, in Rumelia, and under Mustafa Kemal himself in the war of liberation against the old empires of Europe. Ismet was a man truly committed to seeing the Turkish nation rise restored from the ashes of the caliphate, and quickly rose through the ranks of the new revolutionary guard until he was no less than Atatürk's own right hand.

Tensions had always existed between Kemal's strident pragmatism and Ismet's uncompromising will, and burst into sparks on numerous occasions in the past. Today, with the days of the Ghazi confined merely to memory, many claim that the old Vizier has overstepped his limits. That he had sold the nation to her enemies, that he had turned it against the very principles it was founded on. But those claims were nothing; Nothing save for insults to the very legacy of Atatürk.\n\nIn his long tenure as President of the Turkish republic, Ismet Inönü has pursued a single aim with a single mind: the survival of the Turkish state that he had helped found from nothing. When the State's interests called for détente with the Fascists, he had followed them. When they demanded the jackboot and the butt of the rifle, he heeded them. Through the great trials of the past three decades, he marched on: Battered and bloodied and slandered - but never beaten.

The state that stands today is a testament to the man's political ability and above all to his uncompromising will. A great Turkish state: one that will remain great, no matter the cost.

Biography

before becoming the "Permanent" President of Turkey, he was the "Chief of the General Staff of Turkey" (1920-1921), the "Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey" (1922-1924)