After World War I, the Ottoman Empire was effectively dissolved, and its territories were partitioned among the Allied powers. The Turkish War of Independence, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. Atatürk became the founding father and the first president, marking the end of the Ottoman rule and the beginning of a new secular nation-state.
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