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Ali Rıza Efendi (1839–1888) was an official, and the father of
Ali Rıza Efendi (1839–1888) was an official, and the father of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...
and the husband of Zübeyde Hanım.
He was born in Selanik, (modern Thessaloniki in present-day Macedonia, Greece
Macedonia (; el, Μακεδονία, Makedonía ) is a geographic regions of Greece, geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and Greek geographic region, with a population of 2. ...
), back then the most important city in the Ottoman Empire in Europe after Constantinople/ Istanbul. Ali Riza's family comes from Kodžadžik, in Centar Župa Municipality near the border to Albania, today in North Macedonia, where there is a memorial house. He is thought to be of local descent: Albanian
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or Slavic by some scholars such as Andrew Mango, Lou Giaffo, Ernst Jaeckh
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, etc. However the village where his family was born still has Turkish
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majority population, and Falih Rıfkı Atay, a journalist and close friend of Atatürk, claimed that he descended from Turks of Söke
Söke is a town and the largest district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of western Turkey, 54 km (34 miles) south-west of the city of Aydın, near the Aegean coast. It had 121.940 population in 2020. It neighbours are Germencik fro ...
, in Aydın Province
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of Anatolia. According to other historians such as Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, Hasan İzzettin Dinamo, etc: Ali Rıza's ancestors were Turks, ultimately descending from Söke in the Aydın
Aydın ( ''EYE-din''; ; formerly named ''Güzelhisar'', Ancient and Modern Greek: Τράλλεις /''Tralleis''/) is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. The city is located at the heart of the lower valley of B ...
Province.
He worked as a customs official and died in 1888 at age 49, when his son was 7 years old. At Mustafa's birth, Ali Riza hung his sword over his son’s cradle, dedicating him to military service. Most important, Ali Riza saw to it that his son’s earliest education was carried out in a modern secular school. He left the poorly paying clerk's job to start a lumber business, but bandits set fire to his stock after extorting money from him. He attempted to rejoin the civil service without success. He started drinking heavily afterwards which may have contributed to his early death.''Atatutk The rebirth of a nation'' Lord Kinross
References
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