Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President, stands as a towering figure of the 20th Century. Among the great leadersof history, few have achieved so much in so short period, transformed the life of a nationas decisively, and given such profound inspiration to the world at large.
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ancestors moved to Selanik(Thessaloniki) from Karaman(Taşkale town),when Fatih Sultan Mehmet conquered there
Yunus Emre (1238–1320)born in Karaman and died here.He was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic . He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature , from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Veled , one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also, it should be noted, the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles ( tekerlemeler ), and proverbs.
Mevlana who is also known as Rumi, was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds.
He was born in Belh and moved to Karaman with familiy ,and lived here for seven years.He moved to Konya from Karaman for the invitation of the seljuk sultan alaaddin keykubad, his mother and big brother lie in the Aktekke Mosque in Karaman
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