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Although Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was a national hero with his intrepid and enlightened attempts to establish modern Turkey from the remnants of Ottoman heritage, he had been suffering from lifelong "kidney disease" that appeared with intermittent flank pain and fever without an identified source. However, we think that this...
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... Ottoman-Italian clashes in Tripoli (Trablus) in Northern Africa in 1911 when he was a major official. There was a remission (or undocumented period in his medical history) military attaché in the Ottoman consulate in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital ( October 1913October - 1914, where he found ample opportunity to participate in social activities (Fig. 2). He suffered from a second attack during the raging battles of the Gallipoli campaign (zone of Troy-Dardanelles, UNESCO World Heritage Centre) in World War 1 where Ottoman and German troops resisted the forces of the British Empire for 2 long years (1915)(1916). He was initially denied hospitalization, but close to the end of the ...
