Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The "Father of the Turks" who transformed the ruins of the Ottoman Empire into a secular, modern republic by fiat. He changed the alphabet, the dress code, and the very laws of the land almost overnight. He represents the "Secular Surge," the soldier who believed that for a nation to survive, it must embrace the light of science and reason. He is the gaze of the blue-eyed lion, the man who dragged a sultanate into the 20th century.