Istanbul, Nov. 10, Following the official announcement of the Kemal Atatuck's death, at 7.05 this morning, GMT. (3.05 am. Shanghai time), the President of the Grand National Assenbly, Abdul Halik Renda, automatically assumed, under the Constitution, the interim Presidency of the Republic.
The National Assembly was then summoned with the greatest urgency in order to proceed immediately with the Presidential election, which will probably take place tomorrow morn: ing at 11 o'clock.
General Ismet Ineunu,; 5g-old former Premier and Mustapha Kemal's right-hand man, who hàs taken no part in public life since he resigned the Premiership last October, is the most likely successor to. the Presidency. General Ineunu collaborated closely with Ataturk for thirteen years, Creator of Modern Turkey Mustapha Kemal Pasha, first Prest-dent of the Turkish Republic, upon whom, in 1934, the National Assembly conferred the surname of Ataturk, meaning "the Greatest Turk," here today after a lingering illness. He was 58 years old; Mustapha Kemal can, withoùt exaggeration, be described as the creator of modern Turkey and one of the really outstanding figures in post-war Europe. His transformation. of Turkey from a nation of poverty= stricken and illiterate peasants, hidebound with oriental superstition and tyranny, into a self-respecting, modern and Europeanized Power, won him the admiration and respect of the whole civilized world. 4 His life is the record of a steady and inevitable march to power success, the story of a man of un= faltering determination, who what he wanted and knew how' to get it,
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