Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

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Channel: Anadolu English · 2017 · News & Politics

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Various shots of Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, on August 03, 2017 in Ankara, Turkey. The construction of Anitkabir was started in 9th November 1944 and completed in 9 years, in 4 stages. Anitkabir is placed in the Peace Park, which was created with saplings from several foreign countries and from several regions of Turkey, that is inspired from the epigram of Ataturk; “Peace at home, peace in the world”.
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