Teachers had a meeting in Ankara, and two or three teacher ladies attended this meeting and sat in a separate place in the hall.

The turbans of the council, who do not tolerate the teachers going to the meeting, go to Gazi to complain. The veteran said:

”Who is the head of the teachers’ association? Call him!” he says. When Mazhar Müfit came in a few minutes later, he scolded him in a booming voice:

”What did you teachers do at the meeting? What a shame.” Mazhar Müfit is startled. Was this move expected from Gazi? The turbans laugh with victorious chastity. While the turbans are in joy, Gazi’s voice continues in the same tone:

“It’s okay, it’s okay!” Mazhar mufit is still standing and trying to answer, still confused about what to say:

”I swear sir…”

“Let go, I know them all; You also invited the teachers to the meeting. But why did you put them in separate rows? Do you not trust yourself or the virtue of Turkish women? Don’t let me see such separation and dishonesty again, do you understand?“

Salih Bozok tells:
When the British  defeated the Anafartalar Group in Çanakkale and could not dismantle the front, they embarked on a new movement and wanted to turn this front from the right. It was necessary to hold Kireç Tepe in order to foil the enemy’s plan. However, there was only one narrow road leading to it, and warships were under shear fire. At any moment, the cannonballs were wreaking havoc with terrifying explosions, causing death. It was not possible for a wolf, not even a human, to pass through. The Turkish officers and soldiers who were ordered to hold Kireç Tepe were hesitant; They were taking the opportunity. But the fire of the enemy did not cease even for a moment. When Mustafa Kemal saw this situation, he ran to the trenches, mingled with the soldiers and asked:

“Why don’t you pass?” One of them replied:

“The enemy is killing, it is impassable!” Mustafa Kemal, without showing an iota of fear or hesitation:

He said, “This is how you pass through there!” and jumped forward. Will Mehmetçik stop now? They rushed forward after his commander. Breaking through the whirlwind of dust, smoke, flame, and death, the soldiers came across, grabbed the hill.

When King Edward comes to Istanbul, he gets on a motorbike from his yacht and approaches Dolmabahçe Palace. Atatürk is waiting for him at the dock. Because the sea is choppy, the motorbike on which the king rides is constantly going up and down. At a time when the Emperor wanted to go to the pier, his hand touched the ground and dusted.

Since Atatürk had extended his hand at that time, the king wanted to wipe it on his handkerchief before extending his hand to him. But Atatürk immediately stepped in and said:

Saying, “The soil of my country is clean, it does not get your hands dirty.” He takes the king by the hand and takes him to the pier.

Garden architect Mevlüt Baysal tells:

I was making Atatürk’s garden in Çankaya Mansion. One day Atatürk, his aide and I were walking around the garden. We saw that a very old and large tree was blocking the way Atatürk would pass. One side of the tree was a steep ridge, and the other side was a drained pool. Ata, leaning on the part around the pool, crossed to the opposite side. I was promptly fired:

“If you order, we can cut it immediately, Pasha.” He looked at me for a moment, then:

“Have you ever grown such a tree in your life that you will cut it down!”

Years have passed since the Sakarya Victory. One of the famous and equally talented painters of the period presents Mustafa Kemal with a painting depicting the Battle of Sakarya. In this painting, in which the war is tried to be depicted with all its majesty and grandeur, Ata is depicted as riding a greasy war animal in the foreground. While the painter was waiting for congratulations on this composition, Mustafa Kemal’s words:

He was stunned when he said, “Don’t show this painting to anyone.” While everyone is looking at each other, not knowing what to say, Mustafa Kemal makes the following statement:

“Everyone who has been to war knows that our animals were skin and bones; we didn’t have any leftovers from them either. We were all skeletons. By showing both the horses and the warriors as strong as this, you are underestimating the value of Sakarya, my friend.

The Battle of Sakarya Square ended with the victory of the Turkish Armies, and Gazi is returning to Ankara. The people of Ankara, living in great anxiety and pessimism for twenty days, day and night, arranged a ceremonial welcome to the commander-in-chief of the army that defeated the enemy. Starting from the Ankara station, the government and council members, civil servants, students, shopkeepers and the public, lined up on both sides of the road towards the city, are advancing in a big procession by clapping as the veteran passes.

When he arrived in front of the parliament building, Gazi realized that those at the head of the regiment were on their way upwards. It turns out that this ceremony was organized as follows: “As a community”, they will go to the tomb of Hacı Bayram Veli, for this great victory that was won with the help of his “high spirituality”. prayers will be made, then speeches will be read by returning to the Assembly. Veteran:

“No such thing will happen, I will not lose the rights of the Mehmetçik, who defended the land of the country by shedding his blood and giving his life, to the saints! ” he says and turns straight to the parliament building. While describing this event years later, Atatürk added the following to his words:

“Some may have viewed my behavior as an unwarranted act that hurt the public’s belief; But I found it necessary to remind that the “spiritual” of the saints and the saints would not be the power to be trusted, especially in the defense of the country.”

Kilic Ali tells:

One day, in the first parliament, secularism was the subject. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha was the chairman of the parliament that day. A citizen, one of the well-known religious scholars of the parliament, came to the podium. sarcastically:

”Friends, there is this secularism frenzy. Excuse me, I don’t understand the meaning of this secularism, what is this secularism?” As he began to speak, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, who was in the presidency, could not stand it, slamming his hand on the podium from where he was sitting:

“It is about being a man, hodja. It is about being a man.”

Niyazi Ahmet Banoğlu tells:

An American journalist told Atatürk:

“How do you succeed in your work? ” she asked and got the following answer:

“I don’t think about how to be successful at a job. I wonder what would hinder that work. Once I remove the obstacles, the work will run by itself.”

While Atatürk was talking with the Yugoslav King Alexander, who was visiting Turkiye, at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, the guest King said:

”Excellency. We love Turks. So much that, at the end of the World War, Lloyd George offered Western Anatolia to us before he offered it to Greece. But we, Yugoslavs, did not accept George’s suggestion and set out on the Anatolia expedition because we loved the Turks very much.

Atatürk gives the following answer to these words of the King:

“His Majesty, first of all, we would like to thank you for your love towards us.”

Muzaffer Kilic tells:

When we came to Sivas for the congress from Erzurum, they had prepared the Sivas high school as Mustafa Kemal’s headquarters. While Pasha was wandering around the rooms prepared for him, he noticed the yellow satin pillow behind the bed in the bedroom. On the pillow was the following couplet, embroidered with dark thread:

Do not hurt a person by being proud of the world. (People of pride and hurt by the splendor of the world)

If you were the time of Süleyman, you would leave this iwan (Even if you were the Solomon of time, you would leave this world)

Atatürk stopped after reading the article. He summoned Mazhar Müfit Bey. He had the couple read to him. Mazhar Müfit:

When Atatürk said, “My Pasha, this was not written for you.”

He replied, “This warning should be a principle for all of us and for everything.”