Example sentences for: kemal

How can you use “kemal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A story describes the work of Turkish historians debunking the myths shrouding the venerated founder of their modern state, Kemal Atatürk.

  • Kemal handled the problem with his usual vigour and eloquence in a speech to the Assembly, by linking the power of the caliphate with that of the Assembly: “… It was by force that the sons of Osman seized the sovereignty and Sultanate of the Turkish nation… Now the Turkish nation has rebelled and has put a stop to these usurpers, and has effectively taken sovereignty and the Sultanate into its own hands.

  • The subsequent period of internal strife between the Turks and the Greeks and Armenians was dominated by Mustafa Kemal, who had risen from the status of war hero to become the lead­­er of the Turkish nationalist movement.

  • Turkish, which is neither Semitic nor Indo-European, was written using Arabic letters until 1928, when Kemal Ataturk decreed that it thenceforth be written in Latin letters.

  • The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.


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